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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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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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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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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 whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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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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