- Quotes by F.M. Alexander, arranged by publication
- Quotes by F.M. Alexander, arranged by topic
- Quotes by others, arranged by topic
Quotes by F.M. Alexander, arranged by publication
Man’s Supreme Inheritance
From Primitive Conditions to Present Needs
The long process of evolution still moves quietly to its unknown accomplishment. Struggle and starvation, the hard fight for existence, working with fine impartiality, remorselessly eliminate the weak and defective. New variations are developed and old types no further adaptable become extinct, and thus life fighting for life improves towards a sublimation we cannot foresee.
MSI p3
The truth is that man … has changed his habitat and with it his habits, and in so doing has involved himself in a new danger.
MSI p5
The evils of a personal bad habit do not reveal themselves in a day or in a week, perhaps not in a year, a remark that is also true of the benefits of a good habit.
MSI p7
The familiar processes we call civilization and education are not, alone, such as will enable us to come into that supreme inheritance which is the complete control of our own potentialities.
MSI pp7-8
For in the mind of man lies the secret of his ability to resist, to conquer and finally to govern the circumstance of his life.
MSI p8
Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual
The Use of the Self
The Universal Constant in Living
Quotes by F.M. Alexander, arranged by topic
Evolution
The long process of evolution still moves quietly to its unknown accomplishment. Struggle and starvation, the hard fight for existence, working with fine impartiality, remorselessly eliminate the weak and defective. New variations are developed and old types no further adaptable become extinct, and thus life fighting for life improves towards a sublimation we cannot foresee.
MSI p3
The truth is that man … has changed his habitat and with it his habits, and in so doing has involved himself in a new danger.
MSI p5
Human potential
The familiar processes we call civilization and education are not, alone, such as will enable us to come into that supreme inheritance which is the complete control of our own potentialities.
MSI pp7-8
For in the mind of man lies the secret of his ability to resist, to conquer and finally to govern the circumstance of his life.
MSI p8
The One Year Rule
The evils of a personal bad habit do not reveal themselves in a day or in a week, perhaps not in a year, a remark that is also true of the benefits of a good habit.
MSI p7
Quotes by others, arranged by topic
On Alexander’s work
It [the F.M. Alexander Technique] bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.
John Dewey, Introduction to The Use of the Self (Orion 2001), p12
When you understand the concept of “use,” you will stop saying you have a “bad back” or a “tennis elbow” or an “Oedipus complex” or a “phobia for cats” and find out what you are doing that keeps you from getting over it.
Frank Pierce Jones, Freedom to Change (Mouritz 2003), p58
Think well: Move well 