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• Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Done, Way, Belief

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• Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

  Charles Kettering

  Ideas, Enough, Strikes

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  School, Thinking, Done

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Time, Science, Progress

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• The price of progress is trouble.

  Charles Kettering

  Progress, Trouble

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

  Charles Kettering

  Believe, Effort, Want

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Failure, Science

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• We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

  Charles Kettering

  Future, Hard Work, Science

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Luck, Harder, Ifs

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• Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Challenges, Progress

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• The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Science, Opportunity

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Men, Dumb, Doe

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• An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Technology, Intelligence

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Stupidity, Insanity, World

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Creativity, Innovation

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• One fails forward toward success.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Business, Failure

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

  Charles Kettering

  New Year, Reality, Old Year

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• The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

  Charles Kettering

  Eye, Ideas, Judgement

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• The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Determination, Brother

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• My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Stupid, Science

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Art, Failure

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Simple, Prejudice, Facts

  "Dynamic Work Simplification" by W. Clements Zinck, (p. 122), 1971.

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• People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Errors, Ideas

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