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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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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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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 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.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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 sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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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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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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