Koichi Tanaka Quotes

#1. The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

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#2. However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

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

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#4. I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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].

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#8. 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.

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#9. My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

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#10. 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.

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#11. In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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