Frasi di Charles Kettering

1/27

The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

2/27

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

3/27

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

4/27

The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

5/27

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

6/27

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

7/27

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

8/27

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

9/27

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

10/27

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

11/27

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

12/27

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

13/27

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done.

14/27

Logic is a way of going wrong systematically.

15/27

We can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.

16/27

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it.

17/27

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

18/27

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

19/27

Problems are the price of progress.

20/27

Tutti dovremmo preoccuparci del futuro, perché là dobbiamo passare il resto della nostra vita.

21/27

Se lo hai sempre fatto in quel modo, probabilmente è sbagliato.

22/27

Le opportunità dell'uomo sono limitate solo dalla sua immaginazione. Ma così pochi hanno immaginazione che ci sono diecimila violinisti per un compositore.

23/27

Non importa se provi e provi e provi ancora, e fallisci. Importa se provi e fallisci e manchi di provare ancora.

24/27

Un problema compreso a fondo è sempre piuttosto semplice. Basa le tue opinioni sui fatti, non sui pregiudizi. Sappiamo troppe cose che non sono vere.

25/27

La logica è un modo di sbagliare sistematicamente.

26/27

Un inventore fallisce 999 volte e se ci riesce una volta è dentro. Considera i suoi fallimenti semplicemente come tiri di prova.

27/27

Possiamo inviare un messaggio in tutto il mondo in un settimo di secondo, ma ci vogliono anni per far penetrare un'idea attraverso un quarto di pollice di cranio umano.