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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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 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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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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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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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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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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