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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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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 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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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