Benjamin Carson Quotes

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

• Recognition
• Young People
• Football Player

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• Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Best
  • Need
  • Recognition

• I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Football
  • Player
  • Football Player

• The power of celebrity backing has been crucial. I would say that 90 percent of our brand recognition comes from celebrities wearing my pieces.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Power
  • Celebrity
  • Brand

• The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they're bringing 'em out for me to sign.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Singing
  • Records

• The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Long
  • May
  • Beginning

• Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Learning
  • Recognition
  • Error

• Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

  

  Aristotle
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Wise

• Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Sweet
  • Condition

• Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

  

  Plato
  • Care
  • Correct
  • Young People

• All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

  

  Plato
  • Place
  • Recognition
  • Begins

• The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

  

  Socrates
  • Parents
  • Wisdom
  • Reverence

• Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Desire
  • Better
  • Individual

• If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Different
  • Understanding
  • Dignity

• Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Evil
  • Recognition
  • Improving

• The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Sin
  • Salvation
  • Recognition

• It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Victory
  • Remind
  • Young People

• Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Thinking
  • Scientist
  • Recognition

• The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • World
  • Kind
  • Recognition

• It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Easy
  • Ugly
  • Tough

• You don't want to look too far ahead or get too excited about anything, so I just want to keep doing what I've been doing.

  

  Zach Parise
  • Want
  • Looks
  • Excited

• 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
  • Recognition
  • Young People
  • Football Player