F. Matthias Alexander Quotes

Australia, Actor
January 20, 1869 – October, 10, 1955.

Frederick Matthias Alexander (20 January 1869 – 10 October 1955) was an Australian actor who developed the Alexander Technique, an educational process said to recognize and overcome reactive, habitual limitations in movement and thinking.

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.

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- Understanding
- Effort
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.

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

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

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- Spiritual
Trying is only emphasizing the thing we know.

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- Trying
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.

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

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