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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering
Achievement
Expectation
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering
Ocean
One fails forward toward success.
Charles Kettering
Success
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 Kettering
Time
Man
Right
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 Kettering
Difference
Understanding
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.
Charles Kettering
Will
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
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Disgrace
World
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
Charles Kettering
America
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Charles Kettering
Idea
Committee
Want
World
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering
Ignorance
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering
Life
People
Future
Rest
Running
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering
Time
Progress
Ideas
Present
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles Kettering
Act
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering
Education
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles Kettering
Practice