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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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 have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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