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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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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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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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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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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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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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