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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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