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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.
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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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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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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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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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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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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