Koichi Tanaka famous quotes

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Children #Engineering #Radio

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Acceptance #Parent #Secret

The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Strong #Long #People

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Success #Needs #Faces

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Experience #World #Able

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Children #Character #Acceptance

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Students #Grades

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Mother #Giving #Age

Find your own dream! Keep this dream and take good care of it and then sometime you will accomplish something [and feel the intense satisfaction that only the achievement of a long held, worthwhile goal can give].
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Dream #Long #Giving

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Father #Progress #Littles

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Grandmother #Smallest #My Grandmother

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Technology #Study #Tradition

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Technology #Engineering #Faculty

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Development #Results

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.
-- Koichi Tanaka

#Home #Sight #Employment