Quotes About Prevention

Without U.S. input, the countries of South America joined forces in 2008 to shut down a coup attempt in Bolivia and prevented a war between Ecuador and Colombia.

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.

The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough to prevent this. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?Here endeth the lesson.

its better to get hurt now than to get hurt later.

Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

The true hero in the Black Swan world is someone who prevents a calamity and, naturally, because the calamity did not take place, does not get recognition—or a bonus—for it. I will be taking the concept deeper in Book VII, on ethics, about the unfairness of a bonus system and how such unfairness is magnified by complexity.

It is much easier to sell "Look what I did for you" than "Look what I avoided for you.

It is generally accepted that harm from doctors—not including risks from hospital germs—accounts for more deaths than any single cancer.

It is the same logic reversal we saw earlier with the value of what we don't know; everybody knows that you need more prevention than treatment, but few reward acts of prevention.

Every plane crash brings us closer to safety, improves the system, and makes the next flight safer…

True equality is equality in probability. and Skin in the game prevents systems from rotting.

just avoiding being hurt by them would have been sufficient.

It is the same logic reversal we saw earlier with the value of what we don't know; everybody knows that you need more prevention than treatment, but few reward acts of prevention. We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.

When high school girls like us freak out, people are always able to overpower us before we do something stupid, like hijacking a bus or running around with a knife. Which is why girls arm themselves beforehand so they don't get caught up in something like that. Boys probably aren't so good at protecting themselves.

Preventative measures are the bane of spontaneous action," he said. "I prefer the glory of heroism amidst panic.

If more people had been organ donors Unwinding never would have happened.

What about today? What choices are being made, what thins are being said by people in high places that might seem so unimportant now, but are laying the groundwork for truly horrible things tomorrow?

Ich werde es nicht zulassen, dass du dir das Leben nimmst! Es gehört dir nicht!

This would be an extinction event for humanity. We can't let it happen. It is also a who-poisoned-my-beehives event for the Black Pharaoh, which is why He's trying to prevent it. (We bring Him honey: He keeps us around.)

There are no heroes for stopping a problem before it happens.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.