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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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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 sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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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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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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