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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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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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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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