Training Quotes - Page 20

• I like them all-pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels-what have you. I've had good ones and bad of several kinds. Most of the bad ones were my fault and most of the good ones would have been good under any circumstances.

  Gene Hill

  Funny, Dog, Faults

  Gene Hill (1972). “A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds and Guns”, p.137, Academic Learning Company LLC

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• He listens to his trainer real good. He just doesn't listen to me. I still can't get him to do nothing.

  Evander Holyfield

  Dog, Real, Trainers

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• Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family.

  Peg Kehret

  Funny, Dog, Home

  Peg Kehret (1988). “Encore!: More Winning Monologs for Young Actors : 63 More Honest-to-life Monologs for Teenage Boys and Girls”, Meriwether Pub

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• We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dog, Memories, Father

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• She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."

  Greg Kinnear

  Funny, Dog, Eye

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• When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

  Eartha Kitt

  Funny, Dog, Singing

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• A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Dog, Video

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• 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

  Funny, Dog, Coffee

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• Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Funny, Dog, Animal

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books

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• Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

  Donald McCaig

  Dog, Museums, Blood

  Donald McCaig (2014). “Nop's Trials: A Novel”, p.136, Open Road Media

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• Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.

  Barry McDonald

  Dog, Tasks, Show Me

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• Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.

  Robert Morley

  Funny, Dog, Able

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• Because of Diamond, I have had to begin much of the work afresh. I will not, however, rid myself of her, nor even punish her. She knew not what she was doing, and that which she did was for my protection and for love of my person. Her place remains at my side or against my feet when I lie abed.

  Isaac Newton

  Dog, Lying, Feet

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• When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Dog, Zero, Distance

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

  Jeanne Schinto

  Dog, People, Fur

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• The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Dog, Inability, Demand

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Dog, Moments, Hours

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• My dog watches me on TV. So, if I may take this opportunity, "No! No! No!"

  Garry Shandling

  Funny, Dog, Opportunity

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• Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).

  Dodie Smith

  Dog, Latin, Caves

  Dodie Smith (1989). “101 Dalmatians”, p.21, Penguin

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• My dogs have never been good at things like "sit," "stay," or even "come." I think that we've given the tourists a few laughs, especially when the dogs hit the end of their leashes hard enough to drag Gloria down the street.

  James Stewart

  Dog, Thinking, Laughing

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• The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

  Edward Thorndike

  Dog, Fashion, Hands

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.322, Routledge

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• I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Dog, Hands

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

  Quintilian

  Speech, Impressive, Mediocre

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.572, Delphi Classics

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• An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Learning, Ideas

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• Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Doe, Answers, Media Training

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