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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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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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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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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
Charles Kettering
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
Charles Kettering
I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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