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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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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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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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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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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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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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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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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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