Quotes About Prevention

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

It is clear that the photo ID requirement is not a solution to a problem but is instead a political ploy to prevent traditionally disenfranchised populations from voting for the candidates of their choice.

Too many kids think condoms are nasty and vulgar, instead of as something that can save your life.

But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

I've always been working on domestic violence prevention. I've always been fighting for people that are either downtrodden or the most vulnerable, and juvenile justice issues.

By creating a generation of vulnerable people, especially children, with a poor, irregular diet, we are storing up a public health time bomb.

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

The world cannot continue to build larger health care systems where you just sit around and wait for people to get sick.

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.

I worked with a chiropractor who does some manual therapy, some acupuncture. The big thing is to do something on a regular basis, rather than waiting to get hurt.

Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.

With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.

I'm diligent about using eye drops and ointment before bed, which seems to minimize the frequency and severity of corneal abrasions. When I wake up now with an abrasion, I know I need to stay calm and effectively treat the pain. I can usually get back to sleep within a couple of hours.

It turns out the most powerful way we can turn the tide on chronic disease is something we have been doing for millennia: That is walking.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

I think anytime that you can eliminate the big hit, it's obviously not only going to be good for your team, but it's going to be good for yourself.

Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

If there is one Osama bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterwards.