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Charles F. Kettering - From the Achievement category:
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Change category:
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Clubs category:
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Confidence category:
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Difficulty category:
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Eccentricity category:
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Education category:
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 F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Failure category:
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Failure category:
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Future category:
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Future category:
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Future category:
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Habit category:
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Imagination category:
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Imagination category:
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 F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Impossibilities category:
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Innovation category:
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Intellect category:
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Invention category:
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Invention category:
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Invention category:
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Knowledge category:
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 F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Limitations category:
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Opportunity category:
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Perseverance category:
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 F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Persistence category:
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are the least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Philosophy category:
It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Problems category:
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Problems category:
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Problems category:
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Progress category:
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Research category:
Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Risk category:
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 F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Rules category:
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Spectator category:
Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Success category:
One fails forward toward success. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Teaching category:
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... (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Thinking category:
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Thinking category:
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. (Charles F. Kettering)
Charles F. Kettering - From the Understanding category:
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 F. Kettering)
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