You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we’re going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They’re not happy about it, believe me. And they don’t like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.
BENJAMIN CARSONSo after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
More Benjamin Carson Quotes
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I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
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Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God’s sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
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Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
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If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.
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We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else’s problems.
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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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It’s a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one’s life accordingly.
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To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn’t mean we won’t have difficulties along the way. We will – we all do… If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. “We can’t win,” we moan. “They won’t let us win.”
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Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
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When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.
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God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
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We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
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