Ian Dunbar Quotes

#1. You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.

Ian Dunbar

#2. Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

Colin Farrell

#3. You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

Ian Dunbar

#4. Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?

Frank McCourt

#5. All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

Ian Dunbar

#6. With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.

Ian Dunbar

#7. Rambunctious and delinquent dogs become angelic when sitting.

Ian Dunbar

#8. Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.

Ian Dunbar

#9. I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Wise men are not wise at all times.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.

Ian Dunbar

#12. There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us,
it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us

Edgar Cayce

#13. If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

Kate Atkinson

#14. I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.

Ian Dunbar

#15. The giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

Laura Huxley

#16. Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

Ian Dunbar

#17. Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

#18. When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.

Ian Dunbar

#19. Before social networking platforms, people needed to know you to know your name. Today, people only need to know your name to know you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.

Ian Dunbar

#21. One of the quickest ways to a cat's brain is through its stomach.

Ian Dunbar

#22. The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

Walter Bagehot

#23. Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

Ian Dunbar

#24. Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself..

Robin Sharma