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Charles Kettering Inspirational Quotes (65)

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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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