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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.
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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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 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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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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