Podhajsky Quotes & Sayings

Let pure love be your guide and never let your heart burn. — Debasish Mridha

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. — Christopher Lasch

I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy and realistic goals. I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don't set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When you learn to master the principle of setting a goal, you will then be able to make a great difference in the results you attain in this life. — M. Russell Ballard

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. — Diane Von Furstenberg

The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one's emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive — Gary Hopkins

If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go - whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. — Roy Bennett

I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans. — Robbie Coltrane

Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature. — Alois Podhajsky

Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability. — Alois Podhajsky

Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer. — Alois Podhajsky

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China. — Anna Louise Strong

It was a myth that every mother and daughter were best friends, but friendship was far less important than family. Friends came and went; family was always there. — Nicholas Sparks

Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten. — Alois Podhajsky

The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure — Alois Podhajsky

The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners. — Harry Hooton

There is one principle that should never be abandoned, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This is the basic, most important principle to be preserved in equitation. — Alois Podhajsky

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to ... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better. — Morgan Freeman

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie. — Avril Lavigne

...the horse is by no means a 'wild beast' or a stupid animal as sometimes described by thoughtless persons. — Alois Podhajsky