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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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
Running
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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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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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 opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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