02c. 1951 ADIf you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing applies to your city, state, and country. And if you want to be relevant to the entire world, program that computer known as your brain with all kinds of information from everywhere in order to prepare yourself.Ben Carson / quote ↗
03c. 1951 ADIt's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.Ben Carson / quote ↗
04c. 1951 ADWe live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.Ben Carson / quote ↗
05c. 1951 ADThrough hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.Ben Carson / quote ↗
07c. 1951 ADWith everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.Ben Carson / quote ↗
08c. 1951 ADWhen 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. I 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.Ben Carson / quote ↗
09c. 1951 ADDon't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.Ben Carson / quote ↗
10c. 1951 ADYou 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.Ben Carson / quote ↗
11c. 1951 ADThere is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.Ben Carson / quote ↗
12c. 1951 ADThere's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.Ben Carson / quote ↗
13c. 1951 ADOur strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.Ben Carson / quote ↗
14c. 1951 ADI 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.Ben Carson / quote ↗
15c. 1951 ADI always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.Ben Carson / quote ↗
16c. 1951 ADThe most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.Ben Carson / quote ↗
17c. 1951 ADMy strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.Ben Carson / quote ↗
18c. 1951 ADYou don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.Ben Carson / quote ↗
19c. 1951 ADIf you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'Ben Carson / quote ↗
20c. 1951 ADWe should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.Ben Carson / quote ↗
21c. 1951 ADI first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.Ben Carson / quote ↗
22c. 1951 ADOver the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.Ben Carson / quote ↗
23c. 1951 ADThe mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.Ben Carson / quote ↗
24c. 1951 ADThere are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.Ben Carson / quote ↗
