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«The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| Keywords:
flew, impossibility, screen, smoke screen, The Wright Brothers, wright
«An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that 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.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
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«If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time, because there is»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
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unbroken
«There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| Keywords:
exist, frontier, industry, limitless, open-minded, open, Open Mind, opportunities, There exist, The Industry
«If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.»
«When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, ''Boss you can't do that.''»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| Keywords:
be on, boss, engineer, General Motors, meeting place, motoring, motors, reaching, research, slid, slide, slide rule, sliding, solved, table
«We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| About:
Mankind,
Revolution,
World
| Keywords:
model, revolutionize, revolutionized, revolutionizing
«If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
«The only difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| Keywords:
Good Living
«We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| Keywords:
concerned
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