Ben Carson Quotes

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

When I was little, I wanted to be a plastic surgeon.

I wanted to be a doctor, that was the goal.

I don't think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a civil engineer, you could become a biologist, you could become a computer scientist - that was the point of it. I had no idea what I wanted to do. In my last two years of high school here happened to be these few scripts that I really responded to. Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.

I went to college, I went pre-med, I thought I was going to be a doctor.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

My father was a doctor.

I don't know how doctors pick one specialty over another. Some you can understand. Pediatricians. Or gynecologists delivering babies, bringing a new life into the world, but how does someone want to be a proctologist? How can you fall in love with proctology?

I was going to college to be a doctor.

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.

It is incredible how important doctors are to our society and how they help individuals live up to their full potential in life. I hope to inspire and help others fulfill their best selves as I do my best to become the top doctor in the nation in my future.

My original plan was to be a surgeon.

I want to do something in medicine, for sure. I don't know what, exactly, that entails, but something along those lines.

I've wanted to do medicine actually before I started playing football.

Most people, when they think about going into medicine, they think they have to give up their lives, and I was the prime example that you didn't need to do that.

Medicine saved my life, quite literally. I woke up every day of my training thinking, 'I love doing this,' feeling like it was so important what I was doing.

I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.

I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago.

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant a way as people think.