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“If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.”

Ifs Looks Past Success Behinds Successful Miles Painter Squares Canvas

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Over the past 16 days we've had some outstanding performances by Canadian athletes and it is truly overwhelming to be selected as the flag bearer amidst the most successful Canadian Olympic Winter Games team ever.”

Past Games Successful Team Performances Winter Athlete Canada Overwhelming Flags Honored Ceremony Closing Outstanding Over The Past Selected Game Over Outstanding Performance

Author:Cindy Klassen

“The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated, successful hypotheses of the past have the kind of truth that goes into a number system.”

Kind Past Numbers Roles Successful Accurate Hypothesis Systematic Orderly

Book:Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science

Source: Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science

“The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.”

“The characters are great, and this is the first adventure of the brothers Grimm, so there's plenty of potential to make a franchise. We've been quite successful in the past, so anything like that, if it does pay off with hopefully the good movie that I think it will be, it pays off also down the road.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Character Past Pay Successful Adventure Brother Plenty Hopefully Down The Road Good Movie Grimm Brothers Grimm

Author:Bob Weinstein

“I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it!”

Past Successful Spite My Past

Author:Traci Lords

“A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard of the public is not to be kept but by tribute, and the remembrance of past service will quickly languish unless successive performances frequently revive it. Yet in every new attempt there is new hazard, and there are few who do not, at some unlucky time, injure their own characters by attempting to enlarge them.”

Writing Character Past Successful Danger Fame Performances Regard Cease Remembrance Attempting Tribute Hazards Revive Unlucky Languish

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.”

Trying Past Successful Operations

Author:Mary McCarthy

“No matter how successful you've been in the past the question is what's your next miracle.”

Matter Past Next Successful Miracle

Author:Brian Tracy