Quotes About Prevention

The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some "breakthrough" of science or technology) is so lucrative and all-justifying as to foreclose any possibility of an interest in prevention.

It is jealousy, I think, which makes us wish to prevent young people doing the things we had not the courage or the opportunity ourselves to accomplish once, and have not the power to do now.

it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there still was time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe.

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.

Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Psychologists have identified two contrasting mindsets that affect our motivation and our receptiveness to new opportunities: a "prevention focus," which orients us toward avoiding negative outcomes, and a "promotion focus," which orients us toward pursuing positive outcomes.

Checklists provide insurance against overconfidence.

This and that." Often, for example, we'll get stuck in a mindset of prevention OR promotion. If we can do both, seeking out options that minimize harm AND maximize opportunity, we are more likely to uncover our full spectrum of choices.

40% of U.S. adults do not always wash their hands after using the bathroom at home.

2 out of every 5 people you shake hands with may not have washed their hands between using the toilet and touching your hands.

Programs that reduce drug use employ interactive methods, while ineffective programs don't.

If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.

DON'T RAPE WOMEN. YOU MAY GET AIDS.

The best beauty secret is sunblock.

Next, think about likely questions or interruptions, and rehearse your responses. Then think of additional questions or interruptions, and how you would handle them.

I know a guy who had his nose broken in two places. He ought to stay out of those places.

Training is a step-by-step training in mental calmness and emotional wisdom, designed to help patients recover from and prevent relapse of anxiety, depression, and similar stress related problems. It has been effective even when medications are not—and in fact, many of my patients find they don't need to use traditional prescription antianxiety medication at all.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

Prevention is better than cure,

It is clear that he is not an exceptional evil-doer, but a most ordinary boy; every one sees it—and that he has become what he is simply because he got into circumstances that create such characters, and, therefore, to prevent such a boy from going wrong the circumstances that create these unfortunate beings must be done away with.