Quotes About Preempt

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

identified as the premier "consumer advocate." Yet one of Nader's first published writings, in The Nation magazine in 1959, revealed the mind-set behind consumer advocacy when he said, "the consumer must be protected at times from his own indiscretion and vanity."28 Once again, the role of the anointed was to preempt other people's decisions, for their own good.

The best way to avoid challenges is to expect them.

to try and preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.

But when it's read another way, the explanation makes perfectly good sense: Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won't be enlightenment, it will be death.

perhaps even before you can file the action. In fact, I guarantee it.

Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don't just clean it up.