Charles Kettering Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”
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“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”
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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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“What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.”
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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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“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.”
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“A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.”
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“99 percent of success is built on failure.”
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“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.”
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“You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.”
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“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
-- Charles KetteringSource : Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”
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“Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).”
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“Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.”
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“I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.”
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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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“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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“We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”
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“If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.”
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“People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.”
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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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“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”
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“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”
-- Charles KetteringSource : Charles Franklin Kettering (1959*). “In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering”
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“Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.”
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“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.”
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“The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.”
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“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.”
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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.”
-- Charles KetteringSource : Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”
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“Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.”
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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.”
-- Charles KetteringSource : Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”
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