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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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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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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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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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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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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