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 CARSONIf we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
More Benjamin Carson Quotes
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I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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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.
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Went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn’t care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
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If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman.
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If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
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We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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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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When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys.
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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.
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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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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.
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Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
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