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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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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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 sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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