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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.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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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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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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 Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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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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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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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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