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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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