Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
You feel and listen to the horse. The experience of the results of his response helps you understand for the next time.
Tom Dorrance
It’s really amazing what a horse will do for you if he understands what you want. And it’s also quite amazing what he’ll do to you if he doesn’t.
Bill Dorrance
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
The horse is doing one of two things: he’s doing what he thinks he’s supposed to do, or he’s doing what he thinks he has to do to survive.
Ray Hunt
The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.
Nuno Oliveira
Let your idea become the horse‘s idea.
Ray Hunt
Brutality begins where skill ends.
Egon von Neindorff
Make it a habit to praise when the horse yields.
Nuno Oliveira
The horse may not be doing the thing that is the right thing for what the rider is asking him, but as far as the horse is concerned, he is doing the right thing.
Tom Dorrance
