Van Horn Quotes & Sayings

I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue. — Conor McPherson

However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value. — Sathya Sai Baba

Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity. — Van Morrison

The hardest part of doing anything new is finding the courage to decide to at least try. — Bruce Van Horn

Our inner selves go on without us sometimes, trusting we'll catch on eventually. Sometimes it's too late when we do - too late to let the other person know what we've learned. — Meredith Marple

One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces. — Squarepusher

Do the work others aren't willing to do, and you'll get the things others will never have. — Bruce Van Horn

I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all. — Ruta Sepetys

Instead of saying "I can't do that," I want you to start saying "I can't do that, yet! — Bruce Van Horn

People think writers are always feeling inspired. That's only about 5% of it. 95% is the daily discipline to just sit and write. — Bruce Van Horn

In an area such as this the possibility of violence for the sake of robbery or even mere amusement is always something to be reckoned with. Our little expeditionary party had tried to dress as plainly as possible, but our great-cloaks simply by their cleanliness attracted the sinister attention of the loiterers on the street. — K.W. Jeter

It's not the load that breaks you. It's the way you carry it." C.S. Lewis — Bruce Van Horn

If you have time to watch TV, you have time to work on your dreams and change your life — Bruce Van Horn

Just like a movie, our lives are simply a series of individual moments, snapshots in time. — Bruce Van Horn

It is a gift from God. It is breathed into you and, once you receive it, you feel both peace and excitement. — Bruce Van Horn

Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them. — Bruce Van Horn

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. — Van Wyck Brooks

All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas. — Immanuel Kant

Be intentional in every aspect of your life. Happen to your life instead of letting life happen to you! — Bruce Van Horn

The secret to always being in the right place at the right time is knowing that you always are. Mike Dooley — Bruce Van Horn

If what has happened makes us happy, we call it "good." If it causes pain, we call it "bad. — Bruce Van Horn

He announced his intentions to build a spaceport by walking into the office of a local newspaper, the Van Horn Advocate, and giving an impromptu interview to its bewildered editor. — Brad Stone

The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working. — George Burns

The way we behave today is directly related to our belief in the future. — Bruce Van Horn

Worry comes from a lack of purpose. It comes from not having a big "why" for your life. — Bruce Van Horn

Peace comes the moment we let go of our story about how the world should be and find the truth of what is. — Bruce Van Horn

90% of "Can't Do It" is really "Don't Want To" or "I'm Afraid. — Bruce Van Horn

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. Helen Keller — Bruce Van Horn

Worry tells you that life is not perfect, you are not perfect, and that what is about to happen is "bad. — Bruce Van Horn

Their domestication which has taught them how imperfect they are. — Bruce Van Horn

As you improve yourself, those around you benefit and are, themselves, improved! — Bruce Van Horn