Benjamin Carson Quotes

Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.

Benjamin Carson

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• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
  • Me
  • More

• Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Best
  • Thought

• That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Special
  • Gift

• Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Myself

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Better
  • Morality

• I would never walk off any show.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Never
  • Show
  • Walk

• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Interested

• I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Respect
  • Me

• There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Great
  • Now
  • Mexican

• I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Music
  • Writing

• I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Landscape

• In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

  

  Gary Wright
  • India
  • Trip
  • Invited

• If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Heart

• Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • Work
  • Rejection

• It is very conceivable, that the labor of man alone laid out upon a work, requiring great skill and art to bring it to perfection, may be more productive, in value, than the labour of nature and man combined, when directed towards more simple operations and objects

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Life
  • Dream

• I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Thinking
  • Alone
  • Brain

• The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Help
  • Brain
  • Humanity

• When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Brain
  • Choices
  • Intelligent

• You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Support
  • Passion

• 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Death
  • Man
  • Trouble

• Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Brain