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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.
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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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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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 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 price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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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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