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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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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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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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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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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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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 honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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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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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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