Definition of Prerequisite

Prerequisite

Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.

Something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed.

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Prerequisite Quotations

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
Marlon Brando

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Paul Klee

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.
Bill Griffith

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.
Brian Ferneyhough

When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.
Julie Bishop

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
Olympia Dukakis

Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.
Charles Scott Sherrington

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Arthur Koestler

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
Marguerite Gardiner

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.
Robert Cailliau

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