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

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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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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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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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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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