Ivan Illich Quotes

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Ivan Illich

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• Expectation
• Distinction

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• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Study

• In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Late

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Sick
  • Laugh

• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Heights

• I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Attention

• Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Forever

• I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Like
  • Rather
  • Cardio

• Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

  

  B. B. King
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Effort
  • Same

• I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• It is the greatest injustice done to Mondrian that people who are plastically blind see only decorative design instead of the plastic perfection which characterizes his work. The whole De Stijl group from which Mondrian's art was derived must be considered a protest against such blindness.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Great
  • Vision

• Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Unidentified Congressman: Will the gentleman yield? Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!

  

  Eleanor Holmes Norton
  • Gentleman

• Iuravit in mea verba tota Italia.

  

  Augustus

• The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great
  • Mind

• I live, to get out of what I live through.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Live

• Bob Hope: Let's not do any jokes we didn't plan on, eh.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Hope

• Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary distinction; second, its necessary supremacy. These characters though external have been so essential to its fruitfulness, as to justify the statement that without them religion is not religion. A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Character
  • Distinction
  • Justify

• The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Feeling

• We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

  

  Ivan Illich
  • Hope
  • Expectation
  • Distinction