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Quotes from Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story — Ben Carson

born 1951 United States

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Someone told me that creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

You have to try, you have to do everything you can.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

I always pray before any of the operations.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

It wasn't that I had to be first in everything, but I should have been number one.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

I don't believe in one-person productions. Everyone on the team is important and needs to know that he or she is vital.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

We are capable of doing even better things than we believe we are, if we challenge each other to do it.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

I can provide one living example of someone who made it and who came from what we now call a disadvantaged background: me.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt—by forgetting.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

She was not a person who would allow the system to dictate her life.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

We don't necessarily have to play by the strict rules if we can find a way that works better, as long as it's reasonable and doesn't hurt anybody.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

You have yourself to blame.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

Carol James, who is my physician's assistant and my right-hand person, frequently teases me by saying, "It's because women need only half of their brain to think as well as men. That's why you can do this operation on so many women."

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

Jesus Is All the World to Me.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

Stop thinking about failing.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ben Carson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.