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

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Source : Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

Charles Kettering

#Time Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Yesterday Quotes

“It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.”
“As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively.”
“If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark”
“After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.”
“Every second you spend thinking about what you don't want in your life is a second denying focus and energy from getting what you do want. Every minute you worry about what's not working is a minute drawn away from creating what will work. And every hour spent reflecting on the disappointments of the past is an hour stolen from seeing the possibilities that your future holds.”
“I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .”

Source : Song: Me, Album: This Fire, 1996
“As a champion, I can't fight against weak fighters.”
“I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on 'Friends' or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.”

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