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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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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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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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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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 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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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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