A Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Desperation Genius Powerful Sometimes

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Benjamin Disraeli
British - Celebrity
December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.

Geoffrey Zakarian

There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.

Zedd

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.

Otto Weininger

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Alexander Hamilton

I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

David Whyte

Desperation sometimes drives innovation.

Dara Khosrowshahi

...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

Harlan Coben

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I sometimes think that life is a circle. See, I cannot get away from genius. At Barca, I had Messi. At Juve, I have Paulo Dybala. Genius follows me everywhere, I swear.

Dani Alves

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Silence can be a very powerful tool. Sometimes it's more powerful to leave you with nothing.

Ramin Djawadi

Economic desperation often drives wildlife destruction like poaching or illegal logging. But trade can help create powerful financial incentives for communities to preserve the biodiversity around them.