Quotes About Prevention

I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them

If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness.

He said that he felt that the time had about come when the companies should work together with a view of preventing other companies from engaging in the business

he thought unity among foreign bankers would prevent any single country from exploiting China.

There in the course of one hour, a little elderly woman who embodied the spirit of nonviolence single-handedly prevented loss of life, and a preppie young man with fast fists flying also prevented violence. I would not presume to judge who was doing the will of God on that snowy February afternoon.

Forty thousand suicides every year in America. One every thirteen minutes. Statistically we're more likely to kill ourselves than each other.

Forty thousand suicides every year in America. One every thirteen minutes. Statistically we're more likely to kill ourselves than each other. Who knew?

Targeting individuals, while ignoring larger system failures, oversimplifies the problem and does little to prevent its recurrence.

Her sickness came from the water," the nurse explained. "She should drink only good clean water. If the water is dirty, you should boil it for a count of two hundred before she drinks

Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.

We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

If your negligent neighbor falls asleep with a lit cigarette in his mouth, setting his house on fire, he's irresponsible and guilty. But you don't want him to perish in the blaze. Nor do you want his house setting the whole neighborhood on fire. So you call in the fire department, even though it will cost taxpayers money.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Apart from sewerage systems and synthetic vitamins, you don't seem to do anything at all about prevention. And yet you've got a proverb: prevention is better than cure. But cure, said Will, is so much more dramatic than prevention.

A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away

But the power problem has its roots in anatomy and biochemistry and temperament. Power has to be curbed on the legal and political levels; that's obvious. But it's also obvious that there must be prevention on the individual level. On the level of instinct and emotion, on the level of the glands and the viscera, the muscles and the blood. If I can ever find the time, I'd like to write a little book on human physiology in relation to ethics, religion, politics and law.