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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.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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