Benjamin Carson Quotes

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

Benjamin Carson

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• What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Question
  • Realize

• Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Risk
  • Difficult
  • Living

• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Government
  • Risk

• You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Risk

• If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Remember
  • Risk
  • Flying

• It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • People
  • Risk
  • West

• I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Think
  • Risk
  • Difference

• I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Feel

• What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • People
  • Because
  • Realize

• Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • Help
  • Risk

• There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Support
  • Risk
  • Yourself

• Right now, you've got three days between a trade and a settlement, with hundreds of millions in settlement risk tied up in that time. That all goes away in a blockchain system because you've reunited the trade with the settlement. They're not two separate processes.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • High
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Realize
  • Content

• Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Life
  • Society
  • Risk

• It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • Brain

• It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

  

  Lee Ann Womack
  • Home
  • Mom

• I never knew how easy it is to escape if you don't mind leaving nearly everything behind.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Escape
  • Don't Mind

• If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Brain
  • Watches
  • Seeds

• A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Risk
  • Realize
  • Adverse