“O mundo detesta mudanças e, no entanto, é a única coisa que traz progresso.”
Variante: O mundo detesta mudanças, contudo isto é coisa que traz progresso.
Charles Franklin Kettering:
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Charles Franklin Kettering Frases famosas
“Você não pode ter um melhor amanhã se pensar sobre o ontem todo tempo.”
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Prophet of Progress - Página 237, de Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd - Publicado por Dutton, 1961 - 252 páginas
“Meu interesse está no futuro, pois é lá que vou passar o resto de minha vida.”
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there
variavel de "I object to people running down the future, [...] I am going to live all the rest of my life there, and I would like it to be a nice place"
In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering - Página 81, de Charles Franklin Kettering - Publicado por The Institute, 1959 - 97 páginas
Variante: Meu interesse é no futuro, porque é lá que passarei o resto da minha vida.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Prophet of Progress - Página 237, de Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd - Publicado por Dutton, 1961 - 252 páginas
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.
Prophet of Progress - Página 100, de Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd - Publicado por Dutton, 1961 - 252 páginas
Charles Franklin Kettering frases e citações
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless someone dreamed that it should. Someone believed that it could and someone willed that it must.
Prophet of Progress: Selections from the Speeches of Charles F. Kettering - Página 7, de Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd - Publicado por Dutton, 1961 - 252 páginas
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
citado em "Views on Science Education in Foundation-supported Literature"- Página 96, de Stanley Norris - Publicado por School of Education, Stanford University, 1962 - 648 páginas
Charles Franklin Kettering: Frases em inglês
"Mr. Kettering's Talk", News and Views, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, General Exchange Insurance Corporation, Motors Insurance Corporation, 1936, p. 46 https://books.google.com/books?id=G2hEAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22the+rest+of+my+life+there%22
Variants:
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there, and I would like it to be a nice place, polished, bright, glistening, and glorious.
Quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering, by T. A. Boyd 1957, pp. 3–4 ( Internet Archive https://archive.org/stream/professionalamat013190mbp/professionalamat013190mbp_djvu.txt, Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=42Ohg0wKaWsC&pg=PA4&dq=%22I+object+to+people+running+down+the+future%22)
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Common, since 1947. Examples: Instruments and Control Systems, Volume 20, 1947, p. 374 https://books.google.com/books?id=gBonAAAAMAAJ&q=%22my+interest+is+in+the+future+because+i+am+going+to+spend+the+rest+of+my+life+there%22+kettering; " Biography: Charles Kettering http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/streamliners-kettering/", American Experience, PBS; The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives, by Eric Schmidt, , 2014, p. 337 https://books.google.com/books?id=SSWODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA337&q=kettering#v=onepage
Contexto: 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.
“The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.”
As quoted in Dynamic Work Simplification (1971) by W. Clements Zinck, p. 12
As quoted in Dynamic Work Simplification (1971) by W. Clements Zinck, p. 122
quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography Of Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd, 1957 page 106 ( Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/professionalamat013190mbp)
As quoted in Boss Ket (1961) by Rosamond McPherson Young p. 194
As quoted in Scientific American (August 1934) p. 243
“The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.”
As quoted in The End of Work (1995) by Jeremy Rifkin, p. 19
as quoted in Boss Ket (1961) by Rosamond McPherson Young p. 194
“Logic is a way of going wrong systematically.”
As quoted in [Heinich, Robert, Robert Heinich, 1970, Technology and the Management of Instruction - Monograph 4, https://books.google.com/books?id=l_wnDwAAQBAJ, Information Age Publishing, 2000, Greenwich, Connecticut, 34, 9781607529736, 6 May 2020, [...] Kettering's comment, 'Logic is a way of going wrong systematically' [...].]