Benjamin Carson Quotes

I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.

Benjamin Carson

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• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Books
  • Forgotten
  • Remembered

• I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Support
  • Grateful

• I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Want
  • Remembered

• I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • Want
  • Girl

• I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Recognize
  • Volume
  • Appreciative

• An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Devil
  • Remembered

• I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Like
  • Remembered
  • Succeeding

• When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Art
  • Dress
  • Recognize

• In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Reality
  • Order
  • Lives

• After four years since the beginning of the tragedy in the Balkans, we have to recognize the painful fact that this conflict has brought nothing but grief, suffering and destruction, ... There have been no winners in this war, nor could there have been any. Everyone has lost -- the Serbs, the Croats, the Muslims and Europe as a whole.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • War
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Business
  • Remembered
  • Recognized

• I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Recognize

• If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Secret
  • Recognize

• I recognize that here are very efficiently run cooperatives. There are many opportunities for the Socorro Electric Cooperative to cut costs and offer more services.

  

  Charles Wagner
  • Opportunities
  • Recognize
  • Services

• Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Believe
  • Recognize
  • Symptoms

• Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted...

  

  Javan
  • Life
  • Opportunities
  • Recognize

• My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Recognize
  • Species

• As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Recognize
  • Accomplishments
  • Labors

• The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Life
  • Remembered
  • Quoted

• I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Look

• We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• I thought of what my father had told me one summer day. I’d fallen down, and my knee was all scraped up and bleeding. We sat on the back porch, and he cleaned my wound and put a Band-Aid on it. The sky had cleared after a summer storm. I’d been crying, and he tried to get me to smile. “Your eyes are the color of sky. Did you know that?” I don’t know why I remembered this. Maybe it was because I knew he was telling me he loved me.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Smile
  • Storm
  • My Father

• I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Recognize
  • Remembered