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Charles Franklin 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." -
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."
"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions."
"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."
"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
"People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones."
Top 5 quotes from Change, Failure, Success, Time
"May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery."
"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
"Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. "
"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake."
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