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Doing something right once in a while will far surpass anything done wrong more often.

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Buck Brannaman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 29
Horse Trainer
Non-Fiction Writer
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
Wrong
Often
Anything
Done
Right
Something
Surpass

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You can accomplish amazing things with this if you have a passion and you work hard - I just think it’s a cop out to say 'I wasn’t born with this, so it’s OK if I fail'. You can make up the difference with hard work and devotion.
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You try to do as little as you can, but you need to do as much as is necessary to get a result. When you get a result, you do less.
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One of the biggest challenges of a horsemen is to be able tot control your emotions.
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There is something in the human psyche that there is a connection between horses and humans, a real special kind of a thing, and I guess it’s always been there. I hope it will always be there, I hope we don’t evolve past that.
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You want your kids to feel happy and good about themselves. The rest they'll work out on their own. You never know what your kids will be drawn to.
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Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.
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The horse responds to comfort, they respond to peace better than about anything else you could do. All he wants you to do is just leave him alone. So if the horse responds to you and you give him a little peace and comfort that means more to him than anything.
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In nature this animal would have nothing to do with you. Natural horsemanship is just words. It's not natural at all. There's an abundance of trust that must be developed for you. Imagine if humans were that pliable.
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When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.
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When you see a horse that’s troubled, you sort of feel sorry for them, yet that doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t still ask the horse to behave and find a way to fit in and respond to you as well.
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If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don’t make the wrong thing impossible'. Well.....you learn from making mistakes. It’s that simple.
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Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.
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The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.
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It’s not about how much pressure you put on, it’s how good you are at taking it off.
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There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.
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Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.
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A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.
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I'm still on the move, I'm getting better because I'm still studying. I still want to be a better horseman.
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You can't make something happen with a horse, but you can fix things up and let it happen.
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I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.
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