Charles Kettering Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: inventor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 29, 1876 - November 25, 1958

Topics

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You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

Andrea Jung

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I never saw a little African-American girl saving the world. So to be able to be that for not only myself but girls who look like me is really important and inspiring. Unfortunately, we don't see ourselves saving the world a lot, and if we do see any type of superhero, that person usually has superpowers.

Storm Reid

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Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

Tom Robbins

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The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

Tom Tancredo

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I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

Ryan Adams

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I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

Josephine de La Baume

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It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

Dick Thornburgh

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My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.

Cornelia Parker

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We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

Bre Pettis

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Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.

Bobbie Gentry

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We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Alice Walker

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I judge everybody on the Farage Test. Number one, would I employ them? Number two, would I go for a drink with them?

Nigel Farage

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