The whole fun of living is trying to make something better. Charles Kettering More Quotes by Charles Kettering More Quotes From Charles Kettering 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 Kettering progress time science An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. Charles Kettering motivational positive life We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. Charles Kettering failure education art The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try. Charles Kettering failure success science 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. Charles Kettering failure work jobs In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow. Charles Kettering ignorance science knowledge There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do. Charles Kettering week work men The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest. Charles Kettering imagination views opportunity People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness. Charles Kettering errors science ideas I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. Charles Kettering sitting-down persistence commitment 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 Kettering opportunity inspirational science The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good. Charles Kettering judgement eye ideas 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 someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it." Charles Kettering boss achievement feet It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run Charles Kettering easy running philosophy In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. Charles Kettering important people ideas The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind. Charles Kettering new-ventures mind discovery Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional. Charles Kettering honest science firsts We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science. Charles Kettering uncovering kindergarten science you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be. Charles Kettering learning want history And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem. Charles Kettering learning real power
