Definition of Beforehand

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Beforehand

In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.

By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.

In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.

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Beforehand Quotations

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

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

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

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot

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

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 write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins

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

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

Beforehand Translations

beforehand in German is zuvor
beforehand in Spanish is de antemano

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