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The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.
The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.
Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.
I don't do a lot of talking. I do a lot of doing. And really, it says more about a person than how much they talk.
A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.
I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."
There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.
We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.
Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.
We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.
Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.
God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
Things that Hillary Clinton advocates are antithetical to Christian values: killing babies, redefining institutions established by God.
A culture exists within the [Ted] Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.
If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.
If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.
Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing.
I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
Whoever wins in 2016, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Republican, I think they should make it their goal to seal that border within a year.
One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.
What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.
We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!