"Then" I ask "if you hold yourself to the position that was right yesterday, where does the possibility of change come in?" (F.M. Alexander 1869-1955)

"it contains in my judgement the promise and potentiality of the new direction that is needed in all education" John Dewey (1932 Einleitung zum Buch 'Der Gebrauch des Selbst')

"We are giving nature her opportunity" Goddard Binkley

"As a matter of fact, feeling is of much more use than what they call 'mind' when it's right" F.M. Alexander

"This is an exercise in finding out what thinking is" F.M. Alexander

"I am forced to use the words 'physical' and 'mental'... because there are no words at present which adequately express the manifestations of phycho-physical activity..." F.M. Alexander

"I wish therefore to make it clear that whenever I use the word 'mental', it is to be understood, is representing all processes or manifestations which are generally recoznized as not wholly 'physical', and vice versa the word 'physical' as representing all processes and manifestations which are generally recognized as not wholly 'mental'." (F.M. Alexander)

"I think what we are really doing is re-educating the nervous system - getting things to work in the right order."
(Marjory Barlow, F.M. Alexander's Niece)

"The Alexander-Technique opens a window onto the little known area between stimulus and response and gives you the self-knowledge you need in order to change the pattern of your response..." Frank Pierce Jones (Freedom to Change)

"I recommend the Alexander Technique as an extremely sophisticated form of rehabilitation ... many types of under performance and even ailments, both mental and physical, can be alleviated, some times to a surprising degree, by teaching the body musculature to function differently." (Nikolas Tinbergen)

"Complete understanding of the system (Alexander Technique) can come only with the practice of it. All I need to say in this place is that I am sure, as a matter of personal experience and observation, that it gives us all the things we have been looking for in a system of physical education (...) and, along with this, a general heightening of consciousness on all levels.": Aldous Huxley (a psychophysical education, in: Wildred Barlow, Wilfred: More Talk of Alexander - Aspects of the Alexander Technique, London 1978)

"... doing what feels wrong is paradoxically associated with a gradual improvement in the pupil´s general use and functioning." (F.M. Alexander 1869-1955)