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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

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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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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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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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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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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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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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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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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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 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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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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.
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