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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
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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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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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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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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.
Charles Kettering
