Talk:Charles Kettering

can anyone verify this quote a charles kettering
 * "A problem thoroughly understood is fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices, we know too many things that are not true"


 * This seems a very slight variant of a statement attributed to him in Dynamic Work Simplification (1971) by W. Clements Zinck, p. 122:
 * A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

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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.


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


 * If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.


 * 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.


 * It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.


 * Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.


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


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


 * The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.


 * There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.


 * A problem well stated is a problem half solved.


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


 * You can be sincere and still be stupid.

"My interest is in the future"
I found the original form of the "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." quote; see 2225121. The original form (in a GM publication, 1936) is:
 * You know, you read about the future. You can't help that. I don't look upon the future. I am not a politician. I am not worried about the future at all. I don't like to run it down. I don't like to think of it being too dark because I expect to spend all the rest of my life there and I don't want to have a nasty end to it.

This is less pithy, and has a rather darker tone; this may reflect the era (impending world war).
 * —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 02:51, 21 February 2017 (UTC)