F. Matthias Alexander quotes

F. Matthias Alexander quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”
-- F. Matthias Alexander

#Future Quotes #People Quotes #Habit Quotes
“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.”
-- F. Matthias Alexander

#Taken Quotes #Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes
“Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.”
-- F. Matthias Alexander

#Home Quotes #Half Quotes #Way Quotes
“You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.”
-- F. Matthias Alexander

#Spiritual Quotes #Tension Quotes #Translate Quotes
“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.”
-- F. Matthias Alexander

#Children Quotes #Men Quotes #Perfection Quotes
“Trying is only emphasizing the thing we know.”
-- F. Matthias Alexander

#Trying 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

#Lessons Quotes #Intention Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.”

Source : Song: Genie On A Table Top, Album: Famous Last Words, 1993
“Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.”

Source : Song: Russians & Americans
“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”
“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
“Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.”

Source : FaceBook post by Adrian Grenier from Apr 10, 2012
“Your character is the harvest of your habits.”
“Divorce transforms habit into drama.”
“predicament, n. The wage of consistency.”
“If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.”

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