Quotes About Training Dogs

#1. I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.

Tamora Pierce

#2. I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.

Temple Grandin

#3. A lot of people think I am the one to turn to for dog behavior issues. I'm not. All you have to do is meet Tucker; you'll know that I'm not an expert at training dogs.

Bruce Cameron

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

Ian Dunbar

#5. Every year thousands of dogs are abandoned to shelters because of behavior problems. And these are things that can be corrected with just basic training. Dogs are being killed because of lack of training, and that's what the Canine Good Citizen program is all about. (Mary Burch, AKC)

Martin Kihn

#6. You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

Jenny Offill

#7. The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.

Rosie O'Donnell

#9. In 1965, as Ralph Gleason has reported, when Martin Luther King's march on Selma, Alabama, was brutally attacked by local and state constabulary, Louis Armstrong, then in Copenhagen, said after watching the carnage on television, "They would beat Jesus if he was black and marched.

Nat Hentoff

#10. Training is a loop, a two-way communication in which an event at one end of the loop changes events at the other, exactly like a cybernetic feedback system; yet many psychologists treat their work as something they do to a subject, not with the subject.

Karen Pryor

#11. Movement is vital. Whether it's running, cross training, hiking with the dogs, or walking the streets of New York, I am constantly active.

Theo Rossi

#12. The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?

Edgar Wright

#13. If uncertain, it's best to pass by a possibly good dog than risk injury.

Joel M. McMains

#14. I am spilling fire on every side. But I do not trust the 500 billion flames which I am training like dogs.

Paul Eluard

#15. I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.

Charles Darwin

#16. Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

Kathleen Parker

#17. All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.

Helen Hayes

#18. Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

Jeanne Schinto

#19. I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

Dan Fogelberg

#20. While observing some people with their dogs, it is often a question of who is training whom. It is not uncommon to see an owner with their arms extended, holding on for dear life, while their dog runs wild. Unfortunately, I was becoming one of those owners.

Elizabeth Parker

#21. Owners sometimes think their dogs have already suffered so much that they couldn't possibly inflict any more criticism. Yet it's that very firm, effective training that would make those dogs happier and more secure.

Jon Katz

#22. I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me.

Humphrey Bogart

#23. Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

William Tyndale

#24. It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

Giancarlo Esposito

#25. They were as different as honesty and truth, but it takes experience to see the dissimilarities. Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, withdrawn and paranoid. Rocky liked people; Charger didn't. Rocky could trust; Charger didn't know the meaning of the word.

Joel M. McMains

#26. Jane lives by this philosophy: Life, especially that of dogs, is too short for harsh training and too long to be without learning.

Jane Young

#27. To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love.

Cesar Millan

#28. The dogs brought it all back to, you know, to the human side.

Luis Carlos Montalvan

#29. I'm on good form. I'm an older guy. I feel healthy, I've been training, I'm looking after myself, I get up early. I look after the dogs. I'm happy.

Robbie Williams

#30. Silence is a source of great strenght.

Lao-Tzu

#31. In dog culture, when someone calls you, you should absolutely not come if that results in the ending of something you like or initiation of something you don't like.

Jean Donaldson

#32. Where are the dogs?" I asked.
"At training," he said. "I have a friend who's an expert dog trainer, and he's giving them some stealth lessons. He used to work for a local K-9 unit."
I didn't think it was in the Chihuahua genetic code to ever be stealthy.

Richelle Mead

#33. There is no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality
and none of these great goods without stability and order.

Clinton Rossiter

#34. The only food he has ever stolen has been down on a coffee table. He claims that he genuinely believed it to be a table meant for dogs.

Jean Little

#35. Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

James Herriot

#36. Living your problems and loving them like locked rooms is much different from denying them or capitulating to them. It is believing that God is with you in the imperfect, even disappointing circumstances of your life. It is saying to Him with faith in your heart.

Steven Furtick

#37. Dogs who are in an ongoing training program "Learn to Learn" and begin to catch on faster and make better deductions.

Lelah Sullivan

#38. Do not feed that beggar. Hamlet, lie down." The dog ignored her.
"Down," Viktor ordered, his deep voice stern. The dog whined and then lay down. The prince looked at her. "You need to be more forceful."
"I suppose my forcefulness will improve once my voice changes. Sopranos get no respect.

Patricia Grasso

#39. An open mind and helpful hands can do much to change a dog's future.

Mary Debono