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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.
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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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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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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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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 only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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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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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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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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