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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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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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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