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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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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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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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 person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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