Quotes About Prevention

For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it.

Our world needs to move from managing crises to preventing them in the first place. Too often, the world responds too late and too little.

We think till the last minute that nothing can happen to us. But cancer will grab you by surprise, and then it's too late.

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

There's not enough awareness about healthcare and people don't realize the importance of getting a timely health check-up until it is too late.

I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they'd simply made healthier choices earlier in life.

I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.

Too many people have already lost their lives to HIV and AIDS, and the more celebrities who can bring attention to the issue, the better.

If you ask me what I think about going to work every day, it's 9/11 and preventing another 9/11. There were too many people I knew.

'Licensed to Ill' was like a cold, and we took so much vitamin C that we'd never get that cold again.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

We're at a point now where we've built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us.

Too many public and private entities simply don't take advantage of tools already at their disposal to protect themselves from hackers. No amount of information sharing will help solve that problem.

Science has improved public health, taken us to the moon, and allowed us to understand the origins of our universe. It also has given us the tools to solve problems now instead of reacting to them after it is too late.

Cancer is, in general, an increasingly important topic, in part because we've gotten so good at preventing other forms of death that cancer, despite some gains made against it, is becoming even more prominent.

The only constant that I have in my life is that I start whatever I do with my Total Gym, because I believe it helps keep me from getting injured.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

We know we can prevent heart attacks with aspirin, and with drugs called beta-blockers. We know that certain. Lange

It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information.

The only time I flip out is when I'm not prepared. If I'm caught off guard, I can't help it; I start gasping for air.

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

As part of my misspent youth, I spent too much time in the sun, and every few months, I have to go and have some basal cell removed from my old craggy features.