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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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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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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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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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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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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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One fails forward toward success.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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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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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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