Quotes About Precaution

Looks like the safest spot here for a human who doesn't want to get eaten. (Kish)

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.

autumn of 1918, I had just started fifth grade when signs began popping up in windows and on doors, on broadsheets plastered on streetlamps around the neighborhood. Suddenly big public gatherings were being discouraged; taverns, moving-picture houses, soda fountains—even churches—grew empty. Nobody knew what it was exactly, except that it started quickly, with a cough and a fever.

If he's at this party, I want you to stay far away from him." "Shouldn't that rule apply to you, and Jules, too? Unless your penises make you magically bulletproof.

Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead

The judges are trying to make the sports as safe as possible and I was just sorry they thought it necessary to consider me dangerous.

We're being very careful that we don't send a spacecraft to Mars with the intention of detecting Martian life - and find out that we detected the Earth life that we took with us.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

Be prepared for luck.

if something is fragile, its risk of breaking makes anything you do to improve it or make it "efficient" inconsequential unless you first reduce that risk of breaking. As Publilius Syrus wrote, nothing can be done both hastily and safely—almost nothing.

as they are hedging the possibility of their falling into the same situation some day.

Not understanding that doing nothing can be much more preferable to doing something potentially harmful.

In fact for most people except those that are very ill, the risks outweigh the benefits.

forcing us to add an extra layer of protection

With respect to Black Swans, you act to protect yourself from negative ones (or expose yourself to positive ones) even though you may have no evidence that they can take place

This is called a stop loss, a predetermined exit point, a protection from the black swan.

After all, a thirteen-year-old shouldn't use a handheld missile launcher without proper instruction.

A fox must be chased away first; after that the hen might be warned against wandering into the bush.

And by hearing all the stories we will find points of contact and communication, and the world story, the Great Story, will have a chance to develop. That's the only precaution I would suggest—that we not rush into announcing the arrival of this international, this great world story, based simply on our knowledge of one or a few traditions.