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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
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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 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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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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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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