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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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Buck Brannaman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 29
Horse Trainer
Non-Fiction Writer
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
Horse
Happen
Happens
Something
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A lot of times, rather than helping people with horse problems, I'm helping horses with people problems.
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My work is my play. I found a way to make my passion to be the same as how I make a living.
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Most people think of a feel as when you touch something or someone and what it feels like to your fingers but, a feel can have a thousand different definitions. Sometimes feel is a mental thing. Sometimes feel can happen clear ‘cross the arena. Sort of an invitation from the horse to come to you.
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Timing is everything.
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When riding, ask yourself what will my horse get out of it if I get what I want? Many times, human nature is to take and to not give anything back.
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Anytime you are with a horse, no matter if you are a daily rider or one who just gets a chance to ride to the mailbox, you are interacting with your horse. It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity. Doing something right once in a while will far surpass anything done wrong more often.
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When you're younger, you ride with 90% physical and 10% mental. But if you could learn how to use 90% mental and 10% physical you'd be better off.
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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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I just spend my life driving down the road, training horses and helping people.
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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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Your Horse is a mirror to your soul.
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Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.
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You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in their life, and it can be something positive depending on how you use it.
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Simply put I'm trying to see what I can get done with the horse without him being troubled about doing it.
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I started to realize that things would come much easier for me once I learned why a horse does what he does. This method works well for me because of the kinship that develops between horse and rider.
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The comforting thing to the horse is, is as you become more and more accurate, he knows you’re aware of him, and pretty soon because of that he’s aware of you more and more of the time.
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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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There are things that change all through your life the way you deal with people, the way you approach problems.
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