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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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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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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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