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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. — Salvador Dali

The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you'll be when it counts. — Bill Parcells

To fill in all the gaps in my knowledge beforehand was out of the question for me. I had to write now, or not at all. And I wanted to write. — Johan Huizinga

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

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

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater. — Lord Chesterfield

What is inspired comes already arranged beforehand and there is very little to be done by the brain and by the mind. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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 like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same. — Olivier Dahan

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

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

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

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards. — Charles Darwin

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand. — Erwin McManus

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

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

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

I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place. — Winston S. Churchill

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

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it. — Jane Austen

Send me the article beforehand, don't forget, and try and let it be free from nonsense. Facts, facts, facts. And above all, let it be short. Good-bye. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Your excellencies' wishes; only, I tell you beforehand, the carriage will cost you six piastres a day. — Alexandre Dumas

What!" said Bois-Guilbert, "so soon?" "Ay," replied the preceptor, "trial moves rapidly on when the judge has determined the sentence beforehand. — Walter Scott

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand. — Tim Matheson

The chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand. — Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand. — Cindy Sherman

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

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. — Annie Besant

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

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand. — Bill Russell

And that Bagel got enough exercise beforehand so that he'd act like a beagle instead of a banshee (for once). — Anonymous

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward
— Baltasar Gracian

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

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand. — Confucius

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

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

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe. — Carl Sandburg

If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand. — Charles Lindbergh

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand. — Julie Klassen

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't. — Judi Dench

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We are engaged in a good cause, fight under a good Captain, the victory is sure beforehand, and the prize is a crown - a crown of eternal life. — John Newton

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand. — Sun Tzu

How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama! — Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

You never know what you're going to learn about a situation beforehand. Humility is a powerful tool on the path to greater humility. — Art Hochberg

Their verdict was that you could live very well on healthy food provided you had a big cooked lunch beforehand. — Terry Pratchett

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. — Francis Bacon

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

I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand. — Anne Hutchinson

Those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themsleves at the expense of joy. — E. M. Forster

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. — John Selden

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. — George Eliot

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

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

It must have been like death,'3 he wrote, 'the thing which we can never know beforehand. — Helen Macdonald

Predictions of surprising events always prove more accurate if not set down on paper beforehand. — Carl Sagan

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Everybody dies," I answer. "It's just a matter of when and whether you do anything worthwhile beforehand. — Ann Aguirre

Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder. — David Lynch

He stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job. — Hugh MacLeod

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

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 D. Levitt

At that point, when songs got leaked, it was cool though too because then you started getting recognition beforehand. — Bryce Wilson

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

True freewill must and should never be predetermined and thus no one should have the ability to know beforehand the choice that a person would make. — Abaha Saagar

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

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues. — Sun Tzu

That if I let myself go, did not always slow me down by thinking so much beforehand I could achieve many things I would never have dreamt possible!! — Per Petterson

If an evil has been pondered beforehand, the blow is gentle when it comes. — Seneca.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. — E. M. Forster

Over imagine something beforehand and you take the pulse out of it when it happens. — Glenn Haybittle

On Pilgrim's Progress: I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don't want to waste time on drama beforehand. — Holly Holm

When we are to attend upon God in solemn ordinances it concerns us to sanctify ourselves, and to get ready beforehand. — Matthew Henry

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer. — S.D. Gordon

I took the liberty of ascertaining as much beforehand, my lord."
"Of course you did, Bunter. You always ascertain everything. — Dorothy L. Sayers

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand. — Seneca The Younger

That's what the best par of life is, those days or minutes you can't ever frame or paint beforehand — Emily Franklin

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires. — Todd Barry

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant. — Zosia Mamet

Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work. — Orrin Woodward

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. — Michael McFaul