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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.
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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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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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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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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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.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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 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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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 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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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