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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Trouble
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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 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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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 person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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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 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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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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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