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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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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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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 must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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