Tanaka Quotes & Sayings

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

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it. — Masahiro Tanaka

it's the ones who empower a dictator who deserve most of the blame. But the ones who don't support him actively - who watch it happening without saying anything - they're just as much to blame. — Yoshiki Tanaka

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

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

I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. — Arthur Golden

My life might have been totally different if I hadn't been born with this name. If I had had an ordinary name like Sato or Tanaka or Suzuki, I could have lived a slightly more relaxed life or looked at people with somewhat more forgiving eyes. Perhaps. — Haruki Murakami

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart. — Shozo Tanaka

I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players. — Masahiro Tanaka

I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field. — Masahiro Tanaka

I do feel very honored to get all this attention. Basically, what I need to do is to go out there and perform. That's what I'm intending to do. — Masahiro Tanaka

Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II the name for China reverted to chugoku (Middle Kingdom), a common name from before the Meiji Restoration (1868).4 — Stefan Tanaka

I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love. — Masahiro Tanaka

Every time I take the mound, I try to win. So that's what I'm trying to do. — Masahiro Tanaka

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

Seems to be catching."
"What is?" asked Neku.
"Wanting Kit dead."
Neku shrugged. "He was fucking the wife of a gang boss and bikers used his bar to deal drugs, plus lots of uyoku felt Yoshi Tanaka should be married to someone Japanese. Then there's chippu he owed to the local police and unpaid bills from a Brazilian transvestite who mends his motorcycle. It could have been anyone. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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

When political authority and journalism colluded with one another, democracy lost its ability to critique and cleanse itself, allowing a deadly infection to take root. — Yoshiki Tanaka

I don't look at myself as one of the best pitchers in the world. — Masahiro Tanaka

According to Japanese scholar Yuki Tanaka, the United States firebombed over a hundred Japanese cities. Destruction reached 99.5 percent in the city of Toyama, driving Secretary of War Henry Stimson to tell Truman he "did not want to have the US get the reputation of outdoing Hitler in atrocities," though Stimson did almost nothing to halt the slaughter. He had managed to delude himself into believing Arnold's promise that he would limit "damage to civilians." Future Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, who was on LeMay's staff in 1945, agreed with his boss's comment that of the United States lost the war, they'd all be tried as war criminals and deserved to be convicted.
Hatred towards the Japanese ran so deep that almost no one objected to the mass slaughter of civilians. — Oliver Stone

Society gained more by not placing excessive power in the hands of mediocre politicians than it lost by limiting the power of great heroes and statesmen who might or might not appear once every few centuries. — Yoshiki Tanaka

Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka. — Krist Novoselic

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

The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka. — Mitch Williams

I guess it's their friend time? — Meca Tanaka

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

I guess it's true what they say, that a child is as mature as his parents are incompetent." Yang — Yoshiki Tanaka

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

There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn't learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart. — Kamila Shamsie

I think the number one advice I can give is - you just have to start it. Just get your feet in the water and do it. I learned a lot from just trying it out. — Yoshikazu Tanaka

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

The two favorite episodes of 'Lost' that Adam and I wrote were 'Dave,' which was where Hurley has an imaginary friend, and 'Trisha Tanaka is Dead,' where Hurley finds a van and starts it. — Edward Kitsis

Two things are essential for getting people to trust in the system: fair courts and equally fair taxation. Just these two." In — Yoshiki Tanaka

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

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

Ms Soga," he begins, "when they called the register in school your name would have come before Ms Tanaka, and after Ms Sekine. Did you file a complaint abotu that? Did you object, askign them to reverse the order? Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revoliution just because it follows 67? — Haruki Murakami

It was no fun at all watching events heading straight off in the direction of "Boy, I sure hope that doesn't happen." My — Yoshiki Tanaka

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

I just go into a game and try to look at the situation and what needs to be done. I try to execute. — Masahiro Tanaka

Aw, you're nothing but heart, Mako. Nice valentine in your skull, by the way. Is that temporary or did the Tanaka-kai change their daimon to attract the Powerpuff Girls crowd? — Elle Lothlorien

Somebody", "somebody" is always what everyone's thinking. Acting like there's nothing you can do yourself is the easy approach. But there's always "somebody" who comes forward. Time went by in the world. I wanted to be that "somebody." I'm sure, right now that "somebody" is "you and me. — Strike Tanaka

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

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

In order to give these customers what they want within an appropriate timescale, we are committed to developing a broad range of technologies-including plug-in hybrid, electric vehicle and FCV, corresponding to the simultaneous diversification of energy sources. — Yoshikazu Tanaka

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

fundamentally, people do not prefer independent thought and the accompanying responsibility, but rather orders, subordination, and the accompanying exemption from responsibility. In a popular democracy, the masses who elect unfit rulers are to blame for bad government, but that is not the case in a monarchy. Rather than reflecting upon their own mistakes, the people are free to enjoy speaking ill of leaders who are even more irresponsible than they. — Yoshiki Tanaka

I'll do what I can. This is my way of living like a princess! — Rika Tanaka

I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up. — Masahiro Tanaka

For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs. — Masahiro Tanaka

Is that "true justice" you spoke of something that requires you to step over the dignity of others to reach? — Yoshiki Tanaka