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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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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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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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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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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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