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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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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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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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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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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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