Quotes About Prevention

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

For the mass prevention of disease, mass education is a key weapon.

Preventive medicine is thought of as alternative medicine in this country.

Some people should never meet.

we suggest that you add from 10 percent to 20 percent more bonds than you think you need for safety. This will be your insurance against worry, and might help prevent you from selling at the wrong time.

By fixing every detail of an insult in indelible video, it could prevent the softening that's needed for forgiveness to begin.

A healthier and far more nuanced way to address the risk of heartworm is to calculate the first date that the local temperature consistently stays above 57 degrees and when it once again dips below that. For the mid-Atlantic states and New England, this would mean giving your dog its first monthly heartworm treatment around June and the last one in November—six months of taking a toxic chemical instead of twelve.

To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

Sparring is probably the best cardio, but strength training is the best way to prevent the kind of injuries that come from roadwork and sparring.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don't have to do it physically.

I'm a spokesperson, and advocate of awareness. So when anything comes up on our bodies - if it's skin cancer or a bump or something we're not certain of - we need to see our doctors.

I joined forces with the American Cancer Society in 2010 as a spokesperson for the N.F.L.'s 'A Crucial Catch' campaign, which benefits the American Cancer Society. This was important to me because I lost my mother to breast cancer, and I have always felt a strong commitment to doing all I can to fight this disease.

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

Regardless of whether we are required to purchase medical insurance, know that we can only buy real health insurance in the produce section of the local supermarket.

Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

The agent which cures prevents, and the agent that prevents cures.