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Quotes About Prevention

Life, unfortunately, doesn?t seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.
~ Richelle Mead
You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.
~ Richelle Mead
RSPCC MEETING STRICTLY PRIVATE THIS ROOM IS RESERVED FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
~ Roald Dahl
Strictly speaking, the Patrol is not a military organization at all." "Sir?" "I know, I know—you are trained to use weapons, you are under orders, you wear a uniform. But your purpose is not to fight, but to prevent fighting, by every possible means. The Patrol is not a fighting organization; it is the repository of weapons too dangerous to entrust to military men.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There can of course be no doubt that any sort of addiction, whether to opiates, barbiturates, or alcohol, is always an evil and always involves slavery. Society, however, when it shoulders responsibility for preventing such abuse, treads on very slippery ground. The real situation tends to become clouded by misconceptions, and legislation is often enacted which tends to aggravate the very evils it was intended to prevent. Robert DeRopp, M.D., Drugs and the Mind
~ Robert Anton Wilson
On a more personal level, it is very likely that at some time in your life you will come into painful contact with a psychopath. For your own physical, psychological, and financial well-being it is crucial that you know how to identify the psychopath, how to protect yourself, and how to minimize the harm done to you.
~ Robert D. Hare
Evidence is emerging to show that victims of early sexual, physical, or emotional abuse frequently become perpetrators of the same as adults.
~ Robert D. Hare
August] Derleth tried to prevent any other (non-Derleth-approved) writer from writing Cthulhu Mythos stories.If Lovecraft had wanted bad writers to avoid Cthulhu Mythos stories, he wouldn't have written back to August Derleth.
~ Kenneth Hite
Gloves and hive tools used when working a colony with AFB are not cleaned before use in another colony.
~ Kim Flottum
With my list'ning and my shouting I prevent this mount from spouting, And that makes me so important that I'm glad that I'm alive.
~ L. Frank Baum
One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.
~ Michael Greger
If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
~ Al Yankovic
Un medic adevarat incepe sa-l trateze pe om cand acesta e inca sanatos, cand omul se va imbolnavi abia maine, poimaine, peste o saptamana.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Don't spit into the well--you might drink from it later.
~ Yiddish Proverb
Is it, then, necessary to have experienced pain in order to prevent or cure it? "The majority of physicians have never been killed by the disease they treat. "Does this fact prevent them from combatting disease victoriously?
~ Yoritomo-Tashi
If we want to prevent the concentration of all wealth and power in the hands of a small elite, the key is to regulate the ownership of data.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
while we cannot be certain that some new Ebola outbreak or an unknown flu strain won't sweep across the globe and kill millions, we will not regard it as an inevitable natural calamity. Rather, we will see it as an inexcusable human failure and demand the heads of those responsible
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Rather, when famine, plague or war break out of our control, we feel that somebody must have screwed up, we set up a commission of inquiry, and promise ourselves that next time we'll do better.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
If I don't update my body's anti-virus program regularly, I will wake up one day to discover that the millions of nano-robots coursing through my veins are now controlled by a North Korean hacker.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Claro que você precisa cuidar da saúde, manter uma alimentação saudável, exercitar-se regularmente, procurar um médico quando precisar.
~ Zíbia Gasparetto
A long term vision is about prevention and planning while a short term vision is for cure and firefighting
~ Zin Eddine Dadach
Self-defence," I said slowly, looking him straight in the eye, "is all about getting out of dangerous situations without getting hurt.
~ Zoë Sharp
teaching college and high school students about the causes of past wars so they might learn to avoid the mistakes made by their predecessors.
~ Debi Unger
although the mechanism isn't clear yet, strenuous exercise changes the categories of genes that prevent the development of chronic inflammation, which more and more, is believed to be the underlying cause of many chronic conditions.
~ Deborah Kesten