I started reading about people of great accomplish... -Ben Carson

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Ben Carson , Scientist
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Ben Carson is an American neurosurgeon and former politician. Known for his groundbreaking work in neurosurgery and his contributions to medical research, he has made a significant impact in the field of healthcare, saving lives and advancing our understanding of the human brain.

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There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe....
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of the...
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward ...
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my bes...
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams....
Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when ...
I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they di...
The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that the...
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society....
Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is goi...

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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure....
From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people, he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increa...
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven....
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers....
I was filming in Roscrea in Co Tipperary. I had great fun watching monks in the monastery there making bread. They even offered me a job as their main...
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities....
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept put...
I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I...
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day....
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic....