Quotes About Prevention

I don't believe there is a bond between all women. I don't believe that sisterhood is powerful. I believe just the opposite. I believe these women were just in the right position to be kind. There was nothing to prevent them from it.

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

In fact, according to one recent study, poor diet and physical inactivity may soon overtake tobacco as the leading cause of death in America.21

using constructors still doesn't prevent us from changing an object into something else later, because

attack, and stroke among 17,800 patients randomly assigned to receive either Rosuvastatin or placebo for over four years. Source: P. M. Ridker, "Rosuvastatin to Prevent Vascular Events in Men and Women with Elevated C-Reactive Protein," New England Journal of Medicine 359 (2008): 2195–207.

The alternative is to use a system called the Five Whys to make incremental investments and evolve a startup's processes gradually. The core idea of Five Whys is to tie investments directly to the prevention of the most problematic symptoms.

To facilitate learning, I have found it helpful to appoint a Five Whys master for each area in which the method is being used. This individual is tasked with being the moderator for each Five Whys meeting, making decisions about which prevention steps to take, and assigning the follow-up work from that meeting. The master must be senior enough to have the authority to ensure that those assignments get done

medical harm as one of the top three killers in the United States.

440,000 lethal, preventable events each year from care in hospitals, or "roughly one-sixth of all deaths that occur in the United States each year.

But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action. . . . Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of." —ANGELINA JOLIE1

It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger

It's better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger.

If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.

By failing to prepare, you a preparing to fail.

If there were not laws against it; 9 of 10 men would be potential suicides

and it might even be the key to preventing the economy from sliding back into recession.

We wanted to act before we were forced to do so by a run.

We did everything we could think of to avoid it.

for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Three removes is as bad as a fire.