Desperation sometimes drives innovation.
Dara Khosrowshahi
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LEMON ANDERSEN The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation...
ALVIN TOFFLER That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
SUZANNE COLLINS Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Like carnivores to carnal pleasuresAs are we to desperate measures.
HARVEY DANGER When one hits the bottom of the Desperation Barrel, there is always someone down there.
KELLI JAE BAELI Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and bi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain...
JIM CARREY I think it's a sign of desperation for them.
KEARY MCCARTHY Desperation tends to make one sort of flexible.
MACGYVER I think it comes down to desperation. I really don't understand some of the efforts we're getting fr...
BRAD SHAW There was also an undercurrent of desperation about the town's sagging image. They put up booster si...
BILL PULLMAN This is what desperation looks like.
DOUG BAILEY We don't want him out there shooting 3-pointers unless it's a desperation last shot. He might make o...
DOUG APLIN We showed a lot of guts and made some desperation plays, we had guys going down to block shots, it w...
CRISTOBAL HUET Once the desperation kicked in, the bigger the game and the bigger the moment, he stepped up. Every ...
CRAIG HARTSBURG Desperation maybe. Maybe it was knowing that these seniors deserved more than that regular season th...
KYLE VISSER We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.
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PAUL WELLS Lush, evocative, inventive... Livia Dare delights. Fans of Dara Joy will love [SHAYLA BLACK Desperation is the best innovator
TONY CLEAVER Desperation makes for poor stealth.
N.K. JEMISIN When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit...
BORIS SPASSKY He could always hit the ball a good way. Even last summer, at 93, he could hit 200-yard drives somet...
BOB BAXTER Desperation is the father of invention.
MICHEAL LEE NELSON Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.
LI KEQIANG It was in Dara'a that Syria's non-violent democratic movement had begun in 2011, with school...
TERRY GLAVIN What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
JAMES THURBER Desperation is a terrible evaluator of talent!
MITCH BECKMAN Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND And you see those stories repeatedly, everywhere across this city. That the sense of desperation amo...
JOHN ROBERTS It's a swing game for both us. It's as much desperation for us as it is for them. It is a scary lead...
ANDREW BRUNETTE We are getting our feet a little bit. A little desperation time, but we are a young team and we are ...
MIKE D'ANTONI You could really sense some desperation in their game after we got the third goal. They came at us h...
MATHIEU SCHNEIDER I didn't even expect it coming through training camp. But what I saw in training camp was passion an...
LINDY RUFF Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you k...
UMA THURMAN In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanos...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desp...
ALBERT CAMUS You really don't know until you try...and amazing how desperation makes you try a whole lot!
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE That is what happens when teams play with desperation and the other team comes out and doesn't play ...
PHIL JACKSON Our bill assures that the patient is always in control. But it's done in secret without regulation a...
PATTY BERG the same desperation that everyone else had, which is, 'How can I help?'
BARRY MANILOW Will you be mine?
When my people go away,
When I loose my loved ones
When I feel I lost myself.........
NISHI DE SILVA Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
VERONICA ROTH There was a lot of desperation to win these games. Closing out the game. Hitting free throws. Valuin...
JASON RICHARDSON Needless to say, a good part of this desperation owes to the growing successes gained by our securit...
ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?
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