Quotes About Prevention

One of the problems of prevention is that you rarely know about the disasters you averted.

Dan Milstein, one of the principal engineers at Hubspot, writes that he begins all blameless post-mortem meetings by saying, "We're trying to prepare for a future where we're as stupid as we are today." In other words, it is not acceptable to have a countermeasure to merely "be more careful" or "be less stupid"— instead, we must design real countermeasures to prevent these errors from happening again.

By removing blame, you remove fear; by removing fear, you enable honesty; and honesty enables prevention.

Feedback loops not only enable quick detection and recovery of problems, they also inform us on how to prevent these problems from occurring again in the future. Doing this increases the quality and safety of our system of work, and creates organizational learning.

The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

the most efficient way to use military power is to disrupt emerging powers before they can become even marginally threatening.

Despite extensive travel, we no longer have plagues and epidemics.

Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one.

We read history in order not to have to repeat it.

none of these things had really got to happen at all, since she could prevent them. The power of pure destruction was still hers. She could still make it death or glory.

It is as much my job to prevent harm to mankind as a whole as yours is to prevent harm to man as an individual.

There's no question of your working out the entire future of the Galactic Empire, you know. You needn't trace out in detail the workings of every human being or even of every world. There are merely certain questions you must answer: Will the Galactic Empire crash and, if so, when? What will be the condition of humanity afterward? Can anything be done to prevent the crash or to ameliorate conditions afterward? These are comparatively simple questions, it seems to me.

We have to consider violence against women for what it really is: the greatest crisis that faces humanity.

Full belly, happy heart," was the favorite saying of Padre Mendoza, who had been obsessed with good nutrition ever since he'd heard of sailors suffering from scurvy when a lemon could have prevented their agony.

la friccionaba con aceite de almendras dulces para evitar las estrías en la piel del vientre

Since it was already understood that the illness entered the body through the breath and not from a mosquito bite or stomach worms, as had been widely believed, the use of face coverings was ordered. But since there weren't even sufficient masks for health workers, who fought on the front lines, there certainly weren't enough to go around for the general population.

it was only a vague empathy for others that prevented her from being a psychopath.

There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air.

On the morning of May 1, 2018, I woke up knowing that the day I had anticipated for nine years had finally arrived. It was the day of my preventative double mastectomy - the day I would attack my BRCA 2 genetic mutation head-on and take my chances of breast cancer from 84 percent to virtually zero.

It is impossible to insure that there is a zero percent chance of any kind of foodborne illness anytime anyone eats anywhere.

Trump has long said he favors a 'safe zone' in Syria to prevent Basher al Assad's regime from carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes against Syrian civilians and to halt the refugee flow out of Syria.

Every year, we ask our donors to dig deeper. And every year, they gladly, generously comply. It is now up to us to find ways and means to forestall the day when they cannot - or will not. Or the consequences for people in war zones could be disastrous.