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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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 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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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