Begin and Begin Again Quotes

“There's no rule that says someone has to ride or drive or have a hands-on connection tog et joy from horses; some sponsor a young rider, work with horse-rescue organizations, build saddles, or write horse books. Others read horse books, and still others have horses as pasture pets and never ride them but get a great deal of pleasure from the company of their horses and from just taking care of them. The only person you have to please is yourself.”
― Denny Emerson, Begin and Begin Again

“If you buy into some other person's negative assessment, pretty soon it becomes your negative assessment.”
― Denny Emerson, Begin and Begin Again: The Bright Optimism of Reinventing Life with Horses

“People will tell you in a hundred ways why you can't do something. The will tell you that you are too young, too old, too short,too fat, too thin, too timid, too this, too that, and they will try to make you believe it, and if you do believe it, you will never know whether what they told you was impossible is actually impossible, or just somebody else trying to put limits on you.”
― Denny Emerson, Begin and Begin Again: The Bright Optimism of Reinventing Life with Horses

“Jack LeGoff used to have a joke about that (complete with French accent) "My horse is galloping flat and fast toward the big ditch and wall, all strung out. I pick up the telephone to dial the horse, but...there is no answer.”
― Denny Emerson, Begin and Begin Again: The Bright Optimism of Reinventing Life with Horses

“Don't expect the horse to answer the phone in the excitement and adrenaline rush of cross country if he hasn't had plenty of schooling while being ridden on the flat. We have to install those conditioned reflexes of accepting the half-halt in situations where he can learn, so when we truly need them, they are there.”
― Denny Emerson, Begin and Begin Again: The Bright Optimism of Reinventing Life with Horses

“A good horseman or horsewoman is someone who, in an educated way, always puts the best interest of the horse first and foremost.”
― Denny Emerson, Begin and Begin Again: The Bright Optimism of Reinventing Life with Horses

“A tense rider can't feel her horse and the tense horse can't feel his rider.”
― Denny Emerson, Begin and Begin Again: The Bright Optimism of Reinventing Life with Horses