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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
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Persistence
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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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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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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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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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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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