Quotes About Prevention

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution.

But do remember that the most important risk factor for cancer is growing older. Most cancers occur in people over the age of 65.

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

The problem with my mother is that she didn't go to the doctor. And I think by the time she started to show symptoms that something might not be right, and finally went to the doctor, she was so close to her death that she couldn't get the care she had needed. Her big issue was not going to the doctor.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

Protecting children from smoking in cars is the right thing to do.

There is a clear message that is coming through. This [CoVID-19] is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

This meant there was nothing the Spartans could do to prevent their enemies from being supplied by sea.

The world's societies suffer from the current cult of victimization because its subtle dogma holds that circumstances and other people prevent you from achieving your goals.

It should come as no surprise that the real value and benefit of accountability stems from a person's or an organization's ability to influence events and outcomes before they happen.

the best time for handling people problems is before they become people problems.

The act of immolation is first described in Greek texts, quoting from earlier accounts referring to incidents of the fourth century BC. Widows are burnt on the funeral pyres of their dead husbands among the Katheae (Kshatriya or khattiya) in the Punjab. Unable to explain this practice the author remarks that it was an attempt to prevent wives from poisoning their husbands!

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Sources: Wikipedia's entries on "Malaria," "Polio," "Cholera," "Typhoid fever," "Measles

There was a fire at the Inland Revenue office in London, but it was put out before any serious good was done.

Why wait passively for the next terrorist attack--or a nuclear missile launched by a rogue state, or a cyberattack emanating from China or from a group of disaffected Estonian teens-- when we could be eliminating the root causes of conflict by fostering economic development and good governance, building relationships, creating networks of agents and allies, collecting data, promoting "new narratives," or striking potential future enemies before they can develop the ability to harm us?

Planted in apple orchards they are of benefit in preventing apple scab

Somos, por naturaleza, tan fútiles, que solo las distracciones pueden impedirnos de verdad morir.

Efficiency involves attentiveness to those things that must be dealt with before they become such overwhelming problems that they cause far more damage than necessary.

Bilgi prensler yaln?zca varolan sorunlar? deÄŸil gelecekte ortaya ç?kabilecek sorunlar? da dikkate al?rlar ve her türlü çabay? göstererek bunlar? önlemeye çal???rlar çünkü sorunlar önceden görüldüÄŸünde çareleri kolayca bulunur ama kap?ya dayanmalar?n? beklersen hastal?k art?k iyileÅŸtirilemez hale geldiÄŸi için ilaç çok geç kalm?? olur

Figuring that "it can't hurt" to intervene "before it gets worse," is an error that many parents who resort to tough love regret forever.