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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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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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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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