Quotes About Prevention

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his (sic)patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...

Delay is preferable to error.

Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.

Drug prevention and sex education might seem to be very different activities, and a program for gifted and talented students still more different from both of these. But that is true only where these programs are legitimately confined to what they claim to be. Far too often, however, these words are mere flags of convenience under which schools set sail on an uncharted sea of social experimentation

an especially effective way to reduce abortions is to promote access to long-acting contraception.

When the American Dietetic Association (ADA) surveyed all the studies on food and health, they concluded not just that a vegetarian or vegan diet is as healthy as one that includes meat, but that "vegetarians have been reported to have lower body mass indices than non-vegetarians, as well as lower rates of death from ischemic heart disease, lower blood cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, and lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and prostate and colon cancer.

Setiap kali melakukan pekerjaan ini, ada satu hal yang selalu muncul di benak saya. Saat terjadi kasus pembunuhan brutal, yang saya pikirkan bukan hanya menangkap si pelaku, tapi juga menyelidiki mengapa peristiwa itu bisa terjadi. Jika tidak, kesalahan sama akan terulang kembali. Banyak hal yang bisa dipelajari dari suatu kejadian. Kaga

Brains in the head saves blisters on the feet.

Todas las enfermedades causadas por nuestro estilo de vida —la diabetes, la obesidad, las enfermedades cardíacas, muchos tipos de Alzheimer y de cáncer, y casi todas las osteoporosis— son una forma de descomposición. La naturaleza no nos reservaba ninguna de estas cosas. Salimos y las compramos».

It might be useful to think about authoritarianism, totalitarianism, or any kind of dictatorship in the same way we think about dangerous, life-threatening, infectious diseases. The best prevention against such a disease is to build immunity. Education is like a vaccination. Understanding history is part of the process of making ourselves more immune to the dangers of dictatorship.

Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.

XP always keeps the system in deployable condition. Problems are not allowed to accumulate.

However, most defects end up costing more than it would have cost to prevent them. Defects are expensive when they occur, both the direct costs of fixing the defects and the indirect costs because of damaged relationships, lost business, and lost development time.

One of the important lessons of September the 11th, 2001 is that our country must deal with gathering threats before they materialize, before they come back to haunt us. And that's what we did in Iraq.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

As we stand on the tracks, we can avoid the oncoming train only if we are willing to see it and willing to predict that it won't stop. But instead of improving the technologies of prediction, America improves the technologies of conflict:

children died that same week at the hands of a parent, just like every week—and most of them were under 5 years old. Four million luckier children were physically abused last year

women visit emergency rooms for injuries caused by their husbands or boyfriends more often than for injuries from car accidents, robberies and rapes combined. Our

We have a Department of Justice, but it would be more appropriate to have a department of violence prevention because that's what we need and that's what we care about. Justice is swell, but safety is survival.

link together the other two Ps—prevention and protection—because they almost always occur at the same time. Here's the bottom line on prevention and protection:

management hints that the person guilty of committing the error will be punished. They then create more processes and approvals to prevent the error from happening again.

feedback from right-to-left at all stages of the value stream, amplifying it to ensure that we can prevent problems from happening again or enable faster detection and recovery.

The Fourth Ideal is Psychological Safety, where we make it safe to talk about problems, because solving problems requires prevention, which requires honesty, and honesty requires the absence of fear.