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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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