Neurosurgeons Quotes

• The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

  Wilder Penfield

  Future, Destiny, Anatomy And Physiology

  Wilder Penfield (1963). “The second career: with other essays and addresses”

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• Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

  Benjamin Carson

  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

  "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story". Book by Benjamin Carson, 1990.

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• God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

  Benjamin Carson

  Inspirational, God, Cells

  "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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• As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

  Eben Alexander

  Believe, Near Death, Phenomenon

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• Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

  Benjamin Carson

  Happy, Giving, Christian Inspirational

  Ben & Candy Carson @RealBenCarson, twitter.com. October 29, 2013.

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• As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.

  Benjamin Carson

  Life And Death, Diagnosis, Come Up

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

  Benjamin Carson

  Knowledge, Learning, Helping Others

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• We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

  Benjamin Carson

  Life, Way, Wise Words

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• The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Years, Practice

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Doubt, Brain, Want

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

  Eben Alexander

  Son, World, Grew Up

  "Proof Of Heaven: A Doctor’s Experience With The Afterlife". www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

  Eben Alexander

  Inspirational, Life, Laughter

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."

  Christopher Reeve

  Ignorance, Giving, Too Much Information

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• How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Believe, Leaving, Brain

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• Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

  Benjamin Carson

  Truth, Honesty, Worry

  "Ben Carson Says Honesty Is More Important Than Political Experience" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. November 6, 2015.

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• I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Boys, Opening Up, Skulls

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

  Benjamin Carson

  Book, Reading, Library

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• [Doctor Strange] is still quite cocky by the end of the film. No, I'd say the major curve for him is that he learns that it's not all about him, that there's a greater good. But what he thinks he was doing as a neurosurgeon, that was good because it benefitted people's health was really just a furtherment of his attempts to control death and control his own fate and other people's, but that's still driven by the ego.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Cocky, Fate, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I was asked by an NPR reporter once, why don't I talk about race that often. I said it's because I'm a neurosurgeon. And she thought that was a strange response. And you say - I said, you see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.

  Benjamin Carson

  Race, Npr, Skins

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Economics is not brain surgery.

  Benjamin Carson

  Brain, Wise Words, Economics

  "Even if being president were brain surgery, you wouldn't want Ben Carson doing it" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2015.

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• I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.

  Koren Zailckas

  Writing, Ideas, Cracks

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• 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.

  Benjamin Carson

  Education, Sports, Country

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• Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I've found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

  Ann Patchett

  Senior, School, Writing

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.60, A&C Black

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• It's one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it's a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there's the whole chapter before where he's the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It's fantastic.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Mean, Doctors, Roles

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.

  Koren Zailckas

  Writing, Feelings, Ambitious

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