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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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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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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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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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