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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.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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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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