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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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