F. Matthias Alexander Quotes

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

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• One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Government
  • Slavery
  • Dirty

• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
  • You
  • Vision
  • Model

• To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Important
  • Me
  • Hair

• I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.

  

  Callie Hernandez
  • Kind
  • Hair
  • Feel

• I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Live
  • Money
  • Advertising

• I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Fame
  • Away

• I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Never

• I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.

  

  Cam
  • Life
  • Live
  • Awesome

• Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • You
  • Saying

• Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Art
  • Political
  • Education

• As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Learned
  • Create
  • Strange

• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Try
  • Just

• I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Important
  • Stories
  • Police

• My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Myself
  • Like

• When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Career
  • Play

• A man should be upright, not kept upright.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• I shall I not equivocate, there is a meeting of men and women and there is a meeting only for women.

  

  Anne Hutchinson
  • Men
  • Women

• The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

  

  Don Williams
  • Journey
  • Lessons
  • Turns

• I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Bad
  • Attention
  • Habit

• My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • Work
  • Night
  • Simple

• I went to Elon University and studied musical theater. I usually did two musicals a year, but I also did a couple of plays. That was sort of always where I felt the most relaxation.

  

  Chris Wood
  • Couple

• I don't resent being identified with B science fiction movies at all -why should I? Even though they were not considered top of the line, for those people that like sci-fi, I guess they were fun. My whole feeling about working as an actor is, if I give anybody any enjoyment, I'm doing my job, and that's what counts.

  

  John Agar
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• 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