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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.
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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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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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