Occupation: Physicist Birth: May 6, 1904 Death: July 1, 1984
Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles..
A brain without a body could not think..
In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us..
Standing is harder than moving..
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action..
Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance..
Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant..
Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable..
Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to overcome or cove….
I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole wh….
If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the stimulus is half a pound. On the ….
My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, free….
In order to recognize small changes in effort, the effort itself must first be reduced. More delicate and improved control of movement is possible on….
We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do about anger,….
No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function..
What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery..
People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action..
Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself..
Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so..