You feel and listen to the horse. The experience of the results of his response helps you understand for the next time.
Tom Dorrance
Calm, forward, straight.
Alexis L´Hotte
Brutality begins where knowledge ends. Ignorance and compulsion appear simultaneously.
Charles de Kunffy
Recognize the smallest change, the slightest try.
Ray Hunt
The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall.
Confucius
Feel the whole Horse: When I observe people and horses, it often seems to me that when the horse is trying to avoid something, or maybe is not doing what the rider asks of him, it is because the horse’s sense of self preservation is immediately taking effect. This may seem as though the horse does not want to cooperate. But the rider needs to recognize the whole horse; the horse has basic need for self preservation.
Tom Dorrance
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.
Walter Zettl
Riding:The dialogue between two bodies and two souls aimed at establishing perfect harmony between them.
Waldemar Seunig
Looking for the good in people and animals has helped me get a better understanding of life in general.
Tom Dorrance
