Ben Carson Quotes
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How did we become so intrigued by risk – and so worried about it at the same time?
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Stop thinking about failing.
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God don't make no junk.
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Someone told me that creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
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Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
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That learning process has been likened to the challenge of having someone open a fire hydrant and expect you to swallow it all.
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The more we think about risk, the more risk seem to be.
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In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people.
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Faith, by definition, is a risk.
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Use PMA: Positive Mental Attitude.
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The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
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We don't have to explain miracles; all we have to do is accept them.
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It is not a matter of competing with someone else. Essentially, it is accepting our own special abilities as special – and then developing them.
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Not only we can say that we cannot overload our brain, but we also know that our brain retains everything. The difficulty does not come with the input of information, but in getting it out.
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Thanks, God, for honoring our best by giving us a miracle.
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I actually have something I would use the Department of Education to do. It would be to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists.
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True greatness isn't so much what you do as who you are.
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There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.
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Be nice to every-body. You meet the same people going up as you meet going down.
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You have to try, you have to do everything you can.
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When I don't have an answer, I pray. God is the only alternative source of help.
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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
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She was not a person who would allow the system to dictate her life.
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By believing we are the product of random acts, we eliminate morality and the basis of ethical behavior. For if there is no such thing as moral authority, you can do anything you want. You make everything relative, and there’s no reason for any of our higher values.