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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.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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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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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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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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