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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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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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