Matthias Alexander Quotes

#1. For every wound, the ointment of time.

Sharon Kay Penman

#2. You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

F. Matthias Alexander

#3. Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the Party, keeping to Party spirit and Party policy.

Mao Zedong

#4. It is not the degree of 'willing' or 'trying', but the way in which the energy is directed, that is going to make the 'willing' or 'trying' effective.

F. Matthias Alexander

#5. My husband is from Florence. And he has a 15th-century barn that is completely rustic and very 'Green Acres'-like.

Debi Mazar

#6. Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

F. Matthias Alexander

#7. People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

F. Matthias Alexander

#8. Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.

Nelly Furtado

#9. Trying is only emphasizing the thing we know.

F. Matthias Alexander

#10. When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.

F. Matthias Alexander

#11. Don't normal people run in the rain? Even abnormal people, most of them anyway, the only people I can think of who walk in the rain are tree buffers, bag ladies, and total psychos.

Lisa O'Donnell

#12. Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.

F. Matthias Alexander

#13. I want to know what it's like to lie next to him without anything between us.

Katy Evans

#14. ... the delusion that because we are able to do what we "will to do" in acts that are habitual and involve familiar sensory experiences, we shall be equally successful in doing what we "will to do" in acts which are contrary to our habit and therefore involve sensory experiences that are unfamiliar.

F. Matthias Alexander

#15. The intention of each lesson is getting you to recognize what you're doing, kinesthetically. Once you're conscious of it, you then can choose whether to continue doing the same thing or not.

F. Matthias Alexander