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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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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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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 great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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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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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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