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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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 could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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