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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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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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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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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 are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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