A Quote by John Houseman

The Alexander Technique has played an important and beneficial part in my life.

John Houseman

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John Houseman
American - Actor
September 22, 1902 - October 31, 1988

I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

John Cleese

The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.

Tony Buzan

The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the aches and pains that many people suffer and accept as part of life. It is a pity that these techniques are not shown to us all at an early age for I have no doubt that this would alleviate many of the causes of ill health in our communities.

Greg Chappell

Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important

Andre Kertesz

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Aldous Huxley

Milk is a really important part of my diet. For London, I had to be in the best shape of my life, and having milk every day played a part in that.

Jade Jones

You're only great if you win. I mean, Alexander wasn't Alexander the Mediocre or Alexander the Average. He was Alexander the Great, and there's a reason for it.

Shannon Sharpe

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

David Rockefeller

There's a difference between craft and painting. Craft, your job is to make it exactly the same every time. Painting is the opposite, but in painting there is some craftsmanship, which is called technique. But technique is spontaneous. That's the treasure, the most important part. You are in it.

Michael Chow

I'm going to a dance." With Becky?" No, with Alexander." Who's Alexander?" The love of my life!

Ellen Schreiber

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

Roald Dahl

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

Robertson Davies

My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

Lenny Henry

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.