Brutality begins where knowledge ends. Ignorance and compulsion appear simultaneously.
Charles de Kunffy
You’re not working on the horse, you’re working on yourself.
Ray Hunt
Confidence is knowing you are prepared.
Ray Hunt
Don’t have the tendency to want to hurry and not let the horse find it. You fix and wait for them to find it; then it’s their idea when they move their feet.
Tom Dorrance
It is always better to risk losing the contact a little, than not to yield at all.
Nuno Oliveira
Make the wrong thing difficult, and the right thing easy.
Ray Hunt
One has to have an immobile hand with mobile fingers.
Nuno Oliveira
The horse knows where the person is all the time. Now we are trying to help the person know where the horse is all the time. The horse knows where the person is; the person needs to learn to catch up with the horse on that.
Tom Dorrance
Adjust to fit the situation.
Tom Dorrance
The rider needs to recognize the horse’s need for self-preservation in mind, body, and the third factor spirit…….he needs to realize how the person’s approach can assure the horse that he can have his self-preservation and still respond to what the person is asking him to do.
Tom Dorrance
