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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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 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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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