Ben Carson Quotes

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Do you have a brain? Then use it. It's all you need to overcome any problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

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God loves us all, and all of us are equal in God's sight.

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Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

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Creativity requires risk. So do exploration and innovation. Anyone who thinks outside of the box is taking a risk. Leadership brings many risk. Courage is exercised in the face of risk. Invest involve risk. Decision-making always mean a certain degree of risk.

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Like an adventure who was asked why he climbed the mountain and answered, Because it's there! I think our culture has developed this intense love-hate relationship with risk, in part because it's always there.

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We don't have to explain miracles; all we have to do is accept them.

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Thanks, God, for honoring our best by giving us a miracle.

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I don't believe in one-person productions. Everyone on the team is important and needs to know that he or she is vital.

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Whenever I face a hard decision or a risky situation in life (personally or professionally), all my thinking, all my analysis, all my planning can be boiled down to four simple questions:
1. What is the best thing that can happen if I do this?
2. What is the worst thing that can happen if I do this?
3. What is the best thing that can happen if I don't do it?
4. What is the worst thing that can happen if I don't do it?

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Occasionally I talk with people who see doctors as people who do nothing but give of themselves and never receive from anyone else – especially not from their patients. That is totally false. The longer I remain in my profession, the more I realize how much I receive from those who come to me for help.

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Odds that you will die at some point in your life: 1 in 1. Thus, you might say the greatest, most significant, and universal risk factor in death is being born. This implies that it really isn't very helpful to approach the subject of risk by focusing on how we might die; rather, it's far wise to consider how we should live and what risk we will live with.

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I actually have something I would use the Department of Education to do. It would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists.

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Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.

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Often the willingness to think differently about a problem and then risk sharing the idea with others certainly pay off.

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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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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.

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Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run.

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You have to try, you have to do everything you can.

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I don't consider myself a religious person at all. I am, however, a person of enormous faith.

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Be nice to every-body. You meet the same people going up as you meet going down.

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