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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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