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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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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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