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In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. -- Michael McFaul
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. -- George Eliot
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. -- Annie Besant
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. -- Baltasar Gracian
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. -- Winston Churchill
People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant. -- Zosia Mamet
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. -- Sun Tzu
I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window. -- Rita Ora
Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure. -- John Cale
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts. -- Rick Ross
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. -- Saul Bellow
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. -- Frederic Bastiat
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. -- William James
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment? -- Famke Janssen
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand. -- Yves Tanguy
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. -- John Polkinghorne
I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character. -- Matt Damon
I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand. -- Jamie Bamber
But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected. -- Javier Bardem
If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger. -- Jim Allchin
I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it? -- Curtis Stone
No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. -- Daryl Gates
I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns. -- John Tesh
Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready. -- Iyanla Vanzant
I don't like going out on a date unless I know the broad a little bit beforehand. By the way, 'broad' to me is not a detrimental term for women; it's simply another word for female. Anyway, I don't really go out a whole lot, because there aren't many girls I like to take out and spend a whole evening with - at least not an evening in public. -- Joe Namath
God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand. -- Erwin McManus
Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
What is said when drunk has been thought out beforehand. -- Flemish Proverb
With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand. -- Tim Matheson
Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe. -- Carl Sandburg
These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand. -- Sun Tzu
I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires -- Todd Barry
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. -- John Selden
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand. -- Seneca the Younger
We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. -- Salvador Dali
The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer. -- S. D Gordon
Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand. -- Anne Hutchinson
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand. -- Bill Russell
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. -- Francis Bacon
I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand. -- Tyler Hoechlin
Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work. -- Orrin Woodward
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't. -- Judi Dench
It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards. -- Charles Darwin
I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand. -- Cindy Sherman
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. -- E. M. Forster
The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective youâ??ll be when it counts. -- Bill Parcells
At that point, when songs got leaked, it was cool though too because then you started getting recognition beforehand. -- Bryce Wilson
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you've decided beforehand it can't be done. -- Steven Levitt
Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder. -- David Lynch
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. -- Karl Kraus
When you're making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand. -- Zoe Kravitz
I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand. -- Richard Diebenkorn
A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. -- Pablo Picasso
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues. -- Sun Tzu
Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand. -- Urijah Faber
Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't. -- Bob Brown
But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it. -- Jane Austen
True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already, -- Denzel Washington
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio. -- Scott Walker
I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same. -- Olivier Dahan
Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater. -- Lord Chesterfield
To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand. -- William H. Macy
In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand. -- Julie Klassen
It's always good to go over the recipe beforehand, so you can easily think of the next thing that needs to be done. -- Guy Fieri
In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand. -- Carine Roitfeld
Basically, I wanted redemption for the way I lived my life beforehand, and that was the drugs, the drink, the loose sex, whatever... -- Elton John
I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them. -- Christian Bale
OK, here's a little bedroom tip: Put a bag of popcorn in the microwave beforehand. That way when you're done, you have a treat. -- LIZ
At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie. -- Louis Garrel
I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them -- Christian Bale
Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen. -- Nostradamus
But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand. -- Jerome K. Jerome
A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures. . . . It's a fun game, -- Jim Cramer
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them -- Wilkie Collins
I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use. -- Pablo Picasso
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand. -- Judith Wright
To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
When I was filming 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in America, for a couple of weeks beforehand we would always fit in a family holiday in California. -- Anthony Head
A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand. -- Sheila Kaye-Smith
Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract...-- Rhett -- Rowena Cherry
I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand. -- David Ferrer
I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I want to end. -- John Sayles
With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up. -- Sun Tzu
To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called. -- Joseph Bruce
That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand. -- Michael Morpurgo
I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand. -- Angela Merkel
Pacing is not the sort of thing you can plan out beforehand, but you're always aware of it as you write, because you need to make constant decisions. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed. -- Mark Nepo
A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the depths of one's heart can be seen. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done. -- Heidi Julavits
Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand. -- Chris Matakas
What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn. -- Sri Aurobindo
Pre-planning is essential. Research, research, research. If you are going to do a portrait, know as much as you can about the person beforehand. The web makes this very easy. -- Peter Menzel
Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly. -- Richard P. Feynman
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea. -- Florence Nightingale
The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do. -- Sun Tzu
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right. -- Mencius
Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
I had been practicing guitar about six months beforehand; I concentrated mostly on the songs I had to play. I got those down pretty well so they could use me actually playing. -- Freddie Highmore
You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business! -- Chris Corrigan
'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence. -- Noel Clarke
Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence. -- Noel Clarke
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it. -- Michael Ondaatje
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war. -- Francois Rabelais
The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand. -- Layman Pang
When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever. -- Jesse Eisenberg
If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand. -- Apollonius of Tyana
We have to agree beforehand to divide the funniest lines between us. But Tina [Fey] is so brilliant that I just love every moment working with her and also just hanging out together as friends. -- Amy Poehler
You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing. -- Sam Messer
I'm on tour all the time, so I stop at thrift shops. The minute we hit a town, I'll have my assistant Googling thrift stores. I have him go check beforehand; then we go there. -- Travie McCoy

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