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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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