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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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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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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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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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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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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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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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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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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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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One fails forward toward success.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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