I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them. "
If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it'll take all day. Act like you've got all day and it'll take fifteen minutes.
For centuries, humans have said to horses, 'You do what I tell you or I'll hurt you. ' Humans still say that to each other -- still threaten, force and intimidate. I'm convinced that my discoveries with horses have value in the workplace, in the educational and penal systems, and in the raising of children. At heart, I'm saying that no one else has the right to say 'you must' to an animal -- or to another human.
The number one worst piece of horsemanship on earth is violence.
Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.
A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.
Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.
Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you hear of its sorrows.