Jeremy Chance > Quotes

“We have to let go of the idea of winning in order to win.”
― Jeremy Chance, Principles of the Alexander Technique: What it is, how it works, and what it can do for you Second Edition

“An AT teacher is trained to touch you in a unique way: they train for over three years so they can know how to use touch to facilitate your re-experiencing a sensation of movement that is miraculous, because Nature is miraculous.”
― Jeremy Chance, Principles of the Alexander Technique: What it is, how it works, and what it can do for you Second Edition

“Endgaining is a way of life for some people, but it comes at a terrible cost. Heart attacks, anxiety attacks, injuries and general stress all result from this kind of living. In sports, endgaining can mean death. If a racing driver loses his attention for even a second, it can be fatal.”
― Jeremy Chance, Principles of the Alexander Technique: What it is, how it works, and what it can do for you Second Edition

“Alexander lessons improve recruitment. Any activity that has you focus attention on your movements and encourages delicacy, lightless and ease will facilitate better recruitment.”
― Jeremy Chance, Principles of the Alexander Technique: What it is, how it works, and what it can do for you Second Edition

“You can’t tell a person what to do, because the thing you have to do is a sensation.”
― Jeremy Chance, Principles of the Alexander Technique: What it is, how it works, and what it can do for you Second Edition

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― Jeremy Chance, La técnica Alexander: Las posturas del bienestar

“The Alexander Technique, together with its logical side, is experiential: it is a sensation.”
― Jeremy Chance, Principles of the Alexander Technique: What it is, how it works, and what it can do for you Second Edition

“To know when we are wrong is all that we shall ever know in this world.”
― Jeremy Chance, Principles of the Alexander Technique: What it is, how it works, and what it can do for you Second Edition

“The Alexander Technique is a permanent, on-going solution to the problem of pain brought about by inefficient coordination.”
― Jeremy Chance, Principles of the Alexander Technique: What it is, how it works, and what it can do for you Second Edition

“You cannot assume that a set of responses developed early in your life can continue to act as a reliable guide for your actions later in life. Most of modern psychology is constructed around this simple premise.”
― Jeremy Chance, Principles of the Alexander Technique: What it is, how it works, and what it can do for you Second Edition

“Alexander was telling himself, in effect, that the only way he could gain what he wanted was to stop wanting it!”
― Jeremy Chance, Principles of the Alexander Technique: What it is, how it works, and what it can do for you Second Edition

“Alexander was a scientist in the ‘watch and wonder’ class, an empirical thinker who always insisted that his students organize their thinking in terms of practice then theory, never theory then practice.”
― Jeremy Chance, Principles of the Alexander Technique: What it is, how it works, and what it can do for you Second Edition

“The Alexander Technique will teach you about a plan for managing your coordination that really works. It is a plan that harnesses your intelligence to bring about an understanding and pleasure in moving that has no equal in the world today.”
― Jeremy Chance, Principles of the Alexander Technique: What it is, how it works, and what it can do for you Second Edition