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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.

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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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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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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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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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 of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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 person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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