I found this book by incident at the college library and found so many good insights and quotes that I decided to put one big post full of her quotes, so I hope you enjoy the feasting like I did.
" I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveller of whom you asked the way." George Bernard Shaw
" A very simple example of feel for me is when my riding instructors tells me to look at the the clouds when I'm trying to execute leg yield, for example. It helps me to "feel" better by, I think, removing one of my senses- sight- which otherwise would intervene and try to solve the problem for me." Carolyn Bostock
" The quieter you become the more you can hear." Babe Ram Dass
" Look and you will find it- what is unsought will go undetected." Sophocles
"Every Compassionate hand is a healing hand." Pamela Hanney
"Horses stay the same from they day they are barn until they day they die... They are only changed by the way people treat them." Tom Smith- trainer of Seabiscuit
"Happiness is not where you find it but where you create if for others." Anon.
" Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives." Alexandre Dumas
" All the time you're with your horse you're training him- wether you meant to or not." Kelly Marks
" Its not what you're teaching, it's what they're learning..." Kelly Marks
" Don't fool yourself you ever have control of your horse- all you really have is influence." Kelly Marks
" We need to reconcile common sense with 'science sense'." Marc Bekoff
"Hitting means you've lost it. Get help." UK TV advertisement
"Our kind may be able to bully other species, not because we are good at communication but because we aren't. " Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein
" To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." Oscar Wilde
" Show me your horse and I'll tell you who you are." English Proverb
" There can be no friendship when there is no freedom." William Penn
" I can tell you that while there's not one person in the audience tonight who hasn't heard of me, seen me on television or read something about me, I can also guarantee that not one horse that comes in tonight will have ever heard of me, seen me on television of read anything about me." Monty Roberts
" It's funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
W. Somerset Maugham
" There's no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse." R.S. Surtees, Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour
" In riding a horse we borrow freedom." Anon.
" Without discipline, there's no life at all." Katherine Hepburn
" When you are driving a car and you have to stop suddenly, do you flop forwards? Unlikely, because you are aware what is going to happen so you anticipate and tighten the appropriate muscles in the thighs and abdomen to keep you upright. Apply this method when you're riding."
Kelly Marks
" Learn all the technical stuff and then forget it, just play!" Charlie Parker
" Don't learn the tricks of the trade- learn the trade." Anon
" My religion is kindness." Dalai Lama
"If the pupil has not learned, the teacher has not taught." Anon.
" It is better to ask some questions that to know all the answers." James Thurber
" I'm grateful for all my problems. As each of them was overcome I became stronger and more able to meet those yet to come. I grew on my difficulties." J.C. Penney
" You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!" Collette
" Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect." Samuel Johnson
" We cannot solve the problems we have created withe the same thinking that created them." Albert Einstein
" Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on." Frederick Chopin
" The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary!" Anon.
" Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is a progress. Working together is a success." Henry Ford
"Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free- and a worth a fortune." Sam Walton
" Two Americans were talking about their ranches. The first one brags "Why, my ranch is so big if I start riding at 6 o'clock in the morning, I still haven't got the other side by 10 o'clock that night. " The other rancher replies, " Yeah, I once had a horse like that." Kelly Marks
" Every time you ride, you are teaching or unteaching your horse." Gordon Wright
" People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy." Samuel Butler
" To get where you want to go you must keep on keeping on." Norman Vincent Peale
" Deep thoughts: if you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then get rights back on you, I think you should buck him off again right away." Saturday Night Live
"Racehorse: An animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time." Anon.
" Why is it that a woman will ignore a homicidal tendencies in a horse, but will be furious at a man for leaving a toilet seat up?" Anon.
" If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question or asked the question wrong." Kelly Marks
" If you can't be a Good Example then you'll just have to be a Horrible Warning." Catherine Aird
" I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson
" An amateur will practice until she can get it right. A professional will practice until she can't get it wrong." Anon.
" Show me a horse who's been trained and trained and trained and still does not obey, and I'll tel you who the slow learner is!" Anon.
" Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." Andre Gide
" The fact that horses adapt so well to different circumstances is the reason they are subjected to so much abuse. Just because a horse is not complaining, it doesn't necessarily follow that he is happy and comfortable. In the wild an injured animal will be the most attractive to a predator, so horse have evolved to hide their pain as much as they can." Kelly Marks
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
"My treasures don't clink together nor glitter. They gleam in the sun and neigh in the night." Gypsy saying
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