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

• They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Hope
  • Will
  • Go

• 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

• Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Style
  • Something
  • Excellence

• Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Art
  • Blessing

• Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's not one person. It's a collective, and it is a collaboration.

  

  Alex Garland
  • Collaboration

• Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.

  

  David Shields
  • Work

• However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

  

  H. David Burton
  • May
  • Research
  • Endeavor

• 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