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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.
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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does 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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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 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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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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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