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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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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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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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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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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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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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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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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