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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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 sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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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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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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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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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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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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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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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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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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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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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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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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 are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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