Charles F. Kettering
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"Charles Franklin Kettering" was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents.

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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

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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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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

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A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

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People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

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Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.

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Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

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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.

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Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

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My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

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Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

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