Charles Kettering
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Charles Franklin Kettering (29 August 1876 – 24 or 25 November 1958) USA inventor and social philosopher.
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- My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
- Variant: My interest is in the future, as I'm going to be spending the rest of my life there.
- 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.
- The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
- It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
- An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
- There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
- People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
- If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
- The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
- A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere with progressive things.
- 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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