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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
Inventor
Derby
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Anything
Bring
Trouble

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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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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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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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