Early Warning Quotes

#1. I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

#2. Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.

Mark Hyman

#3. We are working to deploy a powerful new radar network with American early warning systems,

Joe Biden

#4. History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

#5. If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.

Nathan Wolfe

#6. I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is sententious and reactionary and an early warning sign of apoplexy. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical.

Gregory Maguire

#7. Emotions, or feelings, have a function. They tell us something. They are a signal....Anger tells us that our boundaries have been violated. Much like a nation's radar defense system, angry feelings serve as an "early warning system" telling us we're in danger of being injured or controlled.

John Townsend

#8. Normal, perhaps, but disgusting. He'd thought diapers were bad. The barfing was arguably worse. Maybe it was an early warning sign of alcoholism: the girl would chugalug an entire bottle at one sitting, and then she'd hurl - and then she'd pass out.

Judith Arnold

#9. O this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.

Rebecca Hamilton

#10. Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.

Peter Diamandis

#11. Kind of an early warning system originally developed to fight terrorism, but isn't it nice to know we can now use it for civilian purposes?

Neal Shusterman

#12. The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

Bill Gates

#13. What society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

Elizabeth Janeway

#14. We are seeing reports that NATO's sending early warning radar planes and German military personnel to Turkey. That might reduce the chances of another incident like this jet shoot down. And obviously both NATO and the U.S. are pressing their ally Turkey to urgently deescalate the situation.

Peter Kenyon

#15. The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.

Andrew Zolli

#16. Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis ... This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.

Adrian Davis

#17. Pitt and Burke were two of the most eloquent and respected members of Parliament, and taken together, by early 1775, they were warning the British ministry that it was headed toward a war that was unwise, unnecessary, and probably unwinnable.

Joseph J. Ellis

#18. The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey.

Lee Ann Womack

#19. Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

C.S. Lewis

#20. My wife's been telling me that I'm a perfect horse's ass for years now.

Stephen King

#21. Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle.

Dennis Franz

#22. Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

Spencer Bachus

#23. I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though. I actually think there are a couple of good ones. And there is some terrible theater. Film is a very different kind of acting.

Dan Futterman

#24. If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

Walter Smith

#25. Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.

Leza Lowitz

#26. The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future.

Aly Khan

#27. If your master is surly, from getting up early
(And tempers are short in the morning),
An inopportune joke is enough to provoke
Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.

W.S. Gilbert

#28. When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.

Neil Gaiman

#29. The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible.
Each New Day

Corrie Ten Boom

#30. I didn't study medicine to watch people die. -Kira

Dan Wells

#31. The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

Yasser Arafat

#32. Between normality and madness, which are basically the same thing, there exists an intermediary stage: it is called "being different." And people were becoming more and more afraid of "being different.

Paulo Coelho