Quotes About Alexander Technique

#1. The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

Paul Newman

#2. The Alexander Technique has played an important and beneficial part in my life.

John Houseman

#3. I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

John Cleese

#4. The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

Robertson Davies

#5. My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

Lenny Henry

#6. The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

William Hurt

#7. With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way ... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom ...

Alan Rickman

#8. Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.

Liz Miller

#9. The Alexander Technique works ... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

Roald Dahl

#10. The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.

Tony Buzan

#11. I was dubious about the effects of the Alexander Technique when I first went in to experience it, but I found out almost immediately that the benefits were total - both physically and mentally - and, happily, have also been long-lasting.

Joanne Woodward

#12. The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.

Alexander Calder

#13. You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool.

Mia Wasikowska

#14. I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know.

Michael Pollan

#15. Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things.

China Mieville

#16. Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.

Max Anders

#17. If your parents disapprove of you and are cunning with their disapproval, there will never come a new dawn when you can become convinced of your own value. There is no fixing a damaged childhood. The best you can hope for is to make the sucker float.

Pat Conroy

#18. Excuse me, but I believe you have my lady, one of them said in a quiet, deep voice that sent veritable chills down George's spine.
Harry.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#19. Oh my dear! No matter where you are, I will be with you either in person or in my heart.

Debasish Mridha

#20. I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

Philip Reeve

#21. I'm still looking to write a great song ... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

Paul McCartney

#22. I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what he does," but when I'm writing, I don't think about that. I don't think about a style.

Charlie Kaufman

#23. All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

Carla H. Krueger

#24. I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.

Joe Biden

#25. We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.

Osama Bin Laden

#26. Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in trim by daily analysis of positions with sharp possibilities, and this applies whether he prefers such positions in his play or not.

Alexander Kotov

#27. Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

Laura Ingalls Wilder