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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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