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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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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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 object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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