My horse needs to be quiet enough not to draw my attention. You want your horse always aware of you. Be aware of your horse! Fidgeting? Direct that! Think of it as a gift. Do something with that energy; redirect it or it will be a negative. Don't let your horse check-out. A horse wants peace. Trade movement for peace.
Buck BrannamanThe road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.
Buck BrannamanYou allow a horse to make mistakes, the horse will learn from mistakes no different than the human. But you can't get him to where he dreads making mistakes for fear of what's going to happen after he does.
Buck BrannamanThere 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 itโs always been there. I hope it will always be there, I hope we donโt evolve past that.
Buck BrannamanI realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that we are connected and we are all still humans, and we are all still looking for the same sort of contentment in our life in one way or another. Some people are searching a little harder than others, granted. But we're not so different.
Buck BrannamanOnce I get the horse where heโs responding and working for ya and has a good frame of mind and a good attitude, itโs not just the horse that needs fixing. Itโs the human that needs fixing and itโs the human that created that in the first place.
Buck BrannamanThe horse seems to wanna please the human and so many times if the human isnโt much of a leader well then the horse has gotta do itโs own thinking. The horse isnโt really designed very well to be the leader but just because the horse is responding to ya, I donโt really think of it as it succumbing to you. I think itโs more of the horse sort of joining you, being more of a partner.
Buck Brannaman