“If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.”
― Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
― Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
“People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.”
― Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
― Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
“First, we cannot overload the human brain. This divinely created brain has fourteen billion cells. If used to the maximum, this human computer inside our heads could contain all the knowledge of humanity from the beginning of the world to the present and still have room left over. Second, not only can we not overload our brain - we also know that our brain retains everything. I often use saying that "The brain acquires everything that we encounter." The difficulty does not come with the input of information, but getting it out. Sometimes we "file" information randomly of little importance, and it confuses us.”
― Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
― Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
“I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills. ”
― Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
― Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
“...I became acutely aware of an unusual ability--a divine gift, I believe--of extraordinary eye and hand coordination. It’s my belief that God gives us all gifts, special abilities that we have the privilege of developing to help us serve Him and humanity. And the gift of eye and hand coordination has been an invaluable asset in surgery. This gift goes beyond eye-hand coordination, encompassing the ability to understand physical relationships, to think in three dimensions. Good surgeons must understand the consequences of each action, for they’re often not able to see what’s happening to see on the other side of the area in which the area they’re actually working.”
― Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
― Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
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