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And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.

Benjamin Carson

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Ask Giving Play Risk Wisdom
Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Achievement School Yale
I don’t know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they’ll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Destroy Happen Themselves Snatching
Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Corporation Making Money Organization
(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Half Thinking
Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Containing Failure Looks Obstacle Softball
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Comprehension Reading Vocabulary
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Gifts Goal Happen Keys Leadership Thinking
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 CARSON

Believe Children Eye
It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Come Helping Matter Others Recognize
God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Done might Operating Room
We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Flesh Mind Spiritual
There’s no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it’s going to open up for you.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Doors Knowledge Things Useless
If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Depth Giving World
The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Care Doctors Medical
These are just things that we don’t know, and that’s where trust and faith come in.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Comes Faith Knows Trust

And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.

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And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.

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