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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.

Benjamin Carson

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fighting Matter Motivation
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fulfill Helping Lives Want
It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Important People Risk
You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Giving God Praying Strength
Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Christian Giving Happy Inspirational
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
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Hard Opportunity Sight Work
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Building Program Scholarship Things
You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Christmas Mean People
If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Environment Priorities Risk
You can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government’s job and I think where we’ve gotten confused.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Confuse Constituition Gotten Governmenrt Say
We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Baghdad Giving Strange
Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
BENJAMIN CARSON

People Running Want
What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Concentrate Needs People World
We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Danger Needs War
There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Average Brain Normal Superior

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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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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