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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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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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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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