Quotes about Prevention

For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

More people live off cancer than die from it.

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

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

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

We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

Your crises and problems would shrink to manageable proportions because you would be thinking ahead, working on the roots, doing the preventive things that keep situations from developing into crises in the first place. In time management jargon, this is called the Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively. They have genuine Quadrant I crises and emergencies that require their immediate attention, but the number is comparatively small.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.