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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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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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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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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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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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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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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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