Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success. Mark Spitz
People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other. Floyd Mayweather Jr
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. Martin Amis
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us. David Brin
Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't. LeBorn Jemes
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. Ralph Ellison
The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem. Mike Marsh
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusionAlbert Einstein
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character. Peter Ackroyd
The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future. Stan Musial
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape. Jack Henry Abbott
The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating. Kristi Yamaguchi
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.Martin Luther King