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“An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that 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 F. Kettering quotes (American engineer, inventor of the electric starter, 1876-1958)

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“Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.”

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“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

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“It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”

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“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.”

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“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”

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“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

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“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”

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“You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.”

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