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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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 biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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