Charles Kettering was in the same fix when he started out to invent a self-starter for automobiles.
「チャールズ・ケタリングは同じ苦境に陥っていた、自動車の自動スターターの開発を始めたとき」
Mr. Kettering was, until his retirement, vice-president of General Motors Research Corporatio
'That discovery jarred me out of my lethargy and caused me to do a bit of thinking - the first real thinking I had done in months.
「この発見は私をどきっとさせた、無気力から抜け出させた、そして私に少々のことを考えさせた。それは数カ月ぶりのはじめての本当の考え事だった。」
I realized that it is difficult to wo
'But thank God, I had one child left - a four-year-old son.
「しかし神よありがとう、私は４歳の息子を残した」
He gave me the solution to my problem.
「彼は私に問題の解決法を与えてくれた」
One afternoon as I sat around feeling sorry for myself, he asked: "Daddy, will you build a bo
"How to crowd worry out of your mind"
「心の外に心配を向かわせる方法」
I shall never forget one night when Marion J. Douglas was a student in one of my classes.
「私は決してある夜のことをわすれない、ダグラスが私の授業の一つの一人の生徒だったときだ」
( I have not used his real name. He requested me
