A Quote by Jim Carrey

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Jim Carrey

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Jim Carrey
Canadian - Comedian
Born: January 17, 1962

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Jim Carrey

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Jim Carrey

Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.

Simon Barnes

I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.

Bobby Cannavale

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

Bill Hybels

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

Philip Jose Farmer

I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn't realize that I really couldn't do anything.

Betty Hutton

I feel like at this point in the world of just creating anything, you're not going to be able to create anything new. I think the closest thing you're going to get to originality is a mixture of influences.

Giveon

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

Dan Brown

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

Harlan Coben

The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.

Katherine Anne Porter

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