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The price of progress is trouble.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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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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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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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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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 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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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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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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 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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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