Quotes About Prevention

What we worry about frequently never happens anyway, and if it is going to happen, worrying won't prevent it. Worry does not make you escape your trouble; it only makes you unfit to deal with it when it comes. God is our help in trouble (Psalm 46:1).

I cannot state strongly enough the need for regular exercise. Many people think they don't have time to exercise, but the truth is if you don't take the time now, you may lose more time visiting doctors and having to be inactive and unproductive because you feel bad. Exercise is one of the best sources of energy you can find!

The road to health is paved with good preventions.

the exercise of gratitude is always a sheet anchor which will prevent you from being swept away.

The dominant ideology of our culture is committed to continuity and success and to the avoidance of pain, hurt, and loss. The dominant culture is also resistant to genuine newness and real surprise. It is curious but true, that surprise is as unwelcome as is loss. And our culture is organized to prevent the experience of both.

De alguna manera, los individuos ventajosos y desconsiderados detectan a los mansos/dependientes, los desnudan en la relación cara a cara, los descubren en la mirada huidiza, en el tono de voz apagado, la postura tensa, los gestos conciliadores, los circunloquios, las disculpas y la amabilidad excesiva. Los ubican, los ponen en la mira y atacan. Insisto, la idea no es crear un estilo prevenido y dejar de creer en la humanidad, sino adoptar un actitud previsora.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

But the law's dream - anyone's dream - would be to turn the clock back and stop the bad thing from happening in the first place.

Wisdom teaches you the lesson before you make the mistake. On the other hand, consequences demand that you make the mistake first. Only then will it teach you the lesson. Wisdom puts up the fence at the top of the cliff; Consequences visits you in the hospital when you're in traction . . . after they've scraped you up from the cliff's bottom.

traffic deaths.

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.

il valait mieux prévenir que guérir.

The murder rate is being held down by medical technology

"Don't Kid Yourself" would be the greatest brand name for birth control pills.

Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad—and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people.

It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place

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This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.

Not satisfied with endlessly pulling drowning men from the torrents rushing past, Day went upstream to see who was throwing the poor bastards into the water in the first place—and

We could've stopped the spread of the disease a lot better than we've been able to cure the disease.

Many thinkers have recognized for a long time now that if we do not eliminate war, war will eliminate us. Preventing violence, then, is simply the necessary prerequisite for the survival of our species. It is a project of evolutionary significance.

What is the mistake the criminal justice system is making? The major mistake, I believe, is the failure to differentiate between restraint and punishment; and to imagine that punishment will prevent, or deter, violence.

Violence occurs when people see no means of undoing or preventing their own humiliation except by humiliating others; indeed, that is the underlying purpose of inflicting violence on others.

I knew the statistics; I'd attended the police lectures. Never get in the car. Never, never, never. Kick, scream, punch, squirm, spit, claw—do whatever it takes, but don't get in that vehicle. A woman's chances of survival plummeted.