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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.
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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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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 whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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