There's nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus.
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Passion without focus can lead you astray.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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