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One fails forward toward success.
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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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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 object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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