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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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