Benjamin Carson Quotes

Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.

Benjamin Carson

• Success
• Failure
• Advance
• Barriers

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• For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Like
  • Everyday
  • Options

• Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Looking

• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

  

  Larry Page
  • Many
  • Rather
  • Few

• Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • English
  • Word
  • Text

• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Work
  • Thought

• You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Want
  • Wall

• I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • Long
  • Respect

• The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • American
  • Actor
  • Works

• Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.

  

  LaToya London
  • Career
  • Publicity
  • Fox

• Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • May
  • Earth
  • Cool

• When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Boy
  • Own
  • Little

• The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Model
  • Top
  • Obsession

• The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Promise

• Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

  

  Leo Burnett
  • Fun
  • Simple

• I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Time
  • Great
  • Friends

• I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Great
  • Smart

• The smell of cigars reminds me of someone I used to know, and it just always brings me back. I love it; I find something very comforting about it.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Comforting

• Self-publishing is fine. But in a world of self-publishing, where everything is about what you get on the back end, there's a serious disincentive from embarking on really important, vital projects.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • World
  • Important
  • Serious

• I don't think guys judge curvy women as much as women do. It shocks me how catty some women can be. In my whole life, I only had one guy break up with me over weight.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• People who know me would say they get a kick out of the fact that I'm always playing nice people, not that I'm not a nice person, but it's not a defining element.

  

  Elizabeth Reaser
  • People
  • Nice

• For AXE to take a chance on me and to help me, you know, collaborating with them was just a really, really big deal for me. It shows that they bought into me and vice versa so it's a good relationship.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Shows
  • Bigs
  • Deals

• I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Home
  • Space
  • Journey

• Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Advance