Ivan Illich Quotes

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

Creating my own roles, as an actor, is great. You're so at the mercy of other people, and you're waiting for a job. That's just a horrible way to live, so I just decided to take matters into my own hands, find my own projects, and create them myself, and then do other stuff that people might throw my way as well.

You are not likely to bring out the best in people or nurture their creativity if every time you hear about their problems you instantly offer a solution Encourage people to look for their own solutions-and project the knowledge that they are capable of doing so.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

I want to go out on my terms.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

No one, and no mind, was ever emancipated by merely being left alone.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can't be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.

I just love to be able to be in control of my life.

I'm all about owning your life.

It makes it a lot easier when you can make your own decisions.

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.

I've always been a guy that liked to stay in control of my own destiny.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.