Charles Kettering

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

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”

“Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.”

“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.”

“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.”

“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.”

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

“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.”

“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.”

“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.”

“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.”

“We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.”

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

“A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.”

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

“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”

“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.”