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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
Progress
Trouble
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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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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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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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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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 fails forward toward success.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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