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

William Hurt

#6. 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

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

Roald Dahl

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

Tony Buzan

#9. 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

#10. The haters can't see me, the money's in the way like traffic.

Wiz Khalifa

#11. 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

#12. I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

Robert Caro

#13. The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln.

Barack Obama

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

Lenny Henry

#15. I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.

Stefon Harris

#16. When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

Kristin Armstrong

#17. I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

Greg Behrendt

#18. Love can neither be bought nor sold - it's only price is love

Jacob Cats

#19. Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare's plays.

Jackie French

#20. I don't hate America. I love America. I want it to be better. The only way we can get it to be better is to realistically criticize what's wrong with it.

Bill Maher

#21. With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.

Frederick Lenz

#22. 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

#23. Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.

Mary Parker Follett

#24. I don't care that you don't want anyone to look after you. I want to look after you. I want to be with you, Maci. I want to see where the road takes us together, and I want to hold your fucking hand, whether it's shaking or not. Do you understand?

Cherie M. Hudson

#25. 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

#26. Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

Christopher Paolini

#27. Your belief system saturates the space around you.

Aaron Huey

#28. Suffer little children and come unto me.

Evita Peron