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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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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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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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