"A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can read distinctly; and yet there are some people who, as soon as they get on a horse, entirely undressed and untaught, fancy that by beating and spurring they will make him a dressed horse in one morning only. I would fain ask such stupid people whether by beating a boy they would teach him to read without first showing him the alphabet? Sure, they would beat him to death, before they would make him read."

-- Monty Roberts

#Morning Quotes #Horse Quotes #Stupid Quotes

“Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.”
“I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.”
“The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.”

Source : Paul Hindemith (1969). “A composer's world, horizons and limitations”
“The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, theyâ€™re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.”

Source : "Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months for 'merely linking to hacked material'" by Nicky Woolf, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2015.
“I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.”
“Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.”
“I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in a tower and then comes out with Pet Sounds or something. I just respond to stimuli more than anything.”
“In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and industry. As a result, India has emerged as an economic success story, and that is a matter of pride for all of us.”

Source : "We don't think of success or failure, they are just phases". Sunday Times Interview, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Jan 24, 2012.

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