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Charles Kettering Quotes
Charles Kettering
American
Inventor
Born:
Aug 29
,
1876
Died:
Nov 25
,
1958
About
Fail
He
People
Will
You
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles Kettering
Impossible
Believe
Fail
Were
Act
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering
New Year's
Time
You
Progress
Every
Every Time
Leaf
New
Ideas
Calendar
New Ideas
Off
New Place
Place
Tear
Present
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Charles Kettering
You
World
Idea
Get
Any
Committee
Want
Working
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
Charles Kettering
Thinking
One Thing
Able
No-One
Been
Tax
Ever
Thing
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Kettering
Inspirational
Brothers
Wright
Wright Brothers
Through
Smoke
Impossibility
Screen
The Wright Brothers
Flew
Right
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
Time
You
Man
Stupid
Right Thing
Definition
Sincere
Fellow
Knows
Still
Educated
Done
The Right Thing
Who
Right
Thing
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering
Great
You
Understanding
About
Something
Between
Know
Knowing
Understand
Lot
Difference
Really
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering
Ocean
Would
Crossed
Could
No-One
He
Gotten
Off
Ship
Storm
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Charles Kettering
People
Old
Long
New Things
Exactly
About
Open-Minded
New
Like
Very
Old Ones
Things
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.
Charles Kettering
You
Will
Stumble
Down
Something
Never
Stumbling
Perhaps
Least
Heard
Expecting
Sitting
Going
Anyone
Keep
Chance
Chances
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles Kettering
You
Way
Wrong
Always
Done
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
Man
Opportunities
Few
Imagination
Thousand
Composer
Ten
Only
Limited
His
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 Kettering
You
Matter
Try
Fail
Does
Again
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
Charles Kettering
Think
Say
America
Anyhow
Even
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering
Education
Seriously
Too
Inventor
Take
Simply
Fellow
His
Who
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles Kettering
Hope
Future
Imagination
Our
Only
Limit
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering
Work
Will
Job
Experiment
Say
He
Fail
Failing
Over
Employee
Until
Learns
Hired
Trying
Often
Biggest
Again
Newly
Teach
Keep
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
Charles Kettering
Time
You
Try
Only
Only Time
Fail
Last
Last Time
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