Practice Makes You Perfect Quotes & Sayings

I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason ... is you. — Julie James

Perfection may be an island out of reach, but setting your sails toward it makes for a magnificent voyage. — Richelle E. Goodrich

They'll be fine," Wickersham said. "Practice makes perfect."
I had to ask. "You practice running away?"
"We knew we'd make enemies. Other organizations have fire drills; we have oh-shit-someone-found-our-ass drills. — Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes, until you do what you shouldn't have done, you least remember what you should have done — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I'm hurting because the color of my skin makes me perfect for their target practice. — R H Sin

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady. — Bruce Lee

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a bit of a novice myself." She smiled. Then she turned back to Jasper. "And please, call me Payton."
Like one of my favorite quarterbacks," Jasper grinned.
Only with an a instead of an e. And slightly fewer yards in passing," Payton said. Damn - now she'd already blown one of the three measly sports references she knew in the first two minutes.
Jasper laughed. "Slightly fewer yards in passing - I like that." He turned to J.D., gesturing to Payton. "Where have you been hidin' this girl, J.D.? — Julie James

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Kurt Cobain

Fucking really is one of those activities that "practice makes perfect". — James Lear

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. — Periander

Practice makes perfect. — Benjamin Franklin

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. — Vince Lombardi

And if somehow Marc was serious, I knew that by the time our engagement was announced, I'd be an expert at celebrating. After all, practice makes perfect, and who else had this much practice? — Hilary Grossman

Keep practicing," he told her.
"Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her.
"No. Until you don't get it wrong. — John Flanagan

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, but if nobody's pefect why practice? — Green Day

Putting aside your blatant patriarchal biases in assuming the necessary presence of a male familial figurehead, yes, I had a nice brunch, thanks. — Julie James

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. — Winston S. Churchill

She opened her arms to the black bat and they flew to each other, embracing in the air like long-lost souls. This is love, Ursula thought. And the practice of it makes it perfect. — Kate Atkinson

We must remember that we are practicing. We are learning, and we will not be virtuous overnight. Just as "men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts"3. You may very well say that practice makes perfect, and in our case perfection is what we are striving for. — Samantha McEnhimer

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice? — Billy Corgan

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"
"I-95. — Bryan Way

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody's perfect so I stopped practicing. — Steven Wright

Practice makes perfect, But nothings perfect so why bother practicing? — Christopher Nicole

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new. — Adam M. Grant

Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent. — Hamza Yusuf

It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace. — David Richo

Practice makes perfect, and allowing your fingers to practice what your head just learned is a surefire way to integrate this into your knowledge. — Erich Andreas

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. — Vince Lombardi Jr.

TEMPORARY INSANITY. — Julie James

Practice Makes Perfect
I'll know better next time
Than to even begin;
Everything's easier on the second try
Especially sin. — Carol Lynn Pearson

If practice makes you perfect
shouldn't good behavior be added
to the curriculum — Cornelia "Connie" DeDona

Practice creates more connections among the neurons, which push you a little further towards perfection. — Abhijit Naskar

Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience can be a very bad teacher, indeed, or not teacher at all. It is like the silly phrase, "Practice makes perfect." In most cases, practice merely confirms us in our errors, and the longer we do something the wrong way - that is, without enlightenment and instruction- the more fixed we become in our folly. — Sydney J. Harris

Practice makes knowledge perfect. — Imam Ali

And watch two men washing clothes,
one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony.
Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work. — Rumi

I have come to accept myself for what I am: human. I am not perfect. I am not immune to fate, but I am not automatically doomed for being alive. I feel temptations every second of every day and I am not controlled by them. I do what I want anyway, so who is to say I want anything else? When I want, I let these peculiarities run across me like dogs to their masters. When I do not, I keep them at bay with my will and my testimony. I do not cut myself off from what makes me feel; I just refuse to feel anything that cuts me off from what matters most. It is called will power. With a little practice, you can accomplish great things. — Corey Taylor

Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with "The Moment" - that moment where you first walk into the bar or restaurant or coffee shop and scan the crowd and suddenly your heart stops and you say to yourself: oh, please - let it be him. — Julie James

Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect. — Daniel Coyle

Aim at a high mark and you'll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. — Annie Oakley

Perfect Practice Makes Perfect. — Vince Lombardi Jr.

Score one for Team Kendall, Payton thought.
Not that it was a competition between them.
Not at all. — Julie James

You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.. — Tupac Shakur

Some say that my teaching is nonsense.
Other call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside themselves,
this nonsense makes perfect sense.
And to those who put it into practice,
this loftiness has roots that go deep. — Lao-Tzu

Then I should be able to say anything I want, right? Even the word 'penis'?"
Laney sighed. "Do we have to do this right now?"
You should try saying the word sometime."
I'll pass, thank you."
Payton shrugged. "Your choice, but I think you'd find it liberating. Everybody could use a good 'penis' now and then."
Laney glanced nervously around the coffee shop. "People are listening."
Sorry - you're right. Good rule of thumb: if you're gonna throw out a 'penis' in a public place, it should be soft. Otherwise it attracts too much attention."
The woman at the next table gaped at them. — Julie James

J.D. scoffed at this. "Please - as if I'm worried about anything Payton has to say. What's she going to do, give me another one of her little pissed-off hair flips?" He flung imaginary long hair off his shoulders, exaggerating. "I'll tell you, one of these days I'm going to grab her by that hair and ... " He gestured as if throttling someone.
Without breaking stride, he returned Tyler's serve. The two smashed a few back and forth, concentrating on the game when
Is violence always part of your sexual fantasies?" Tyler interjected.
J.D. whipped around
Sexual - ?"
- and got hit smack in the face with the squash ball. He toppled back and sprawled ungracefully across the court.
Tyler stepped over and twirled his racquet. "This is nice. We should talk like this more often. — Julie James

We're out of time, Payton. You said it yourself: the only way we'll make it is for us to go into this together. I know we can do this. But I need you to believe it. You need to believe ... in us."
Peyton didn't say anything for a long moment, and J.D. could literally hear his heart beating. Then she finally answered.
"It would have to be called Kendall and Jameson."
It took J.D a moment to catch on. Then he grinned. "No way. Jameson and Kendall. It's alphabetical."
"You told our boss that you banged me on top of your desk."
"Kendall and Jameson sounds great — Julie James

Besides.
Eternity was going to seem like forever.
With the crowds of smiling people smiling at me in the dark, me who spent my life cleaning bathrooms and mowing the lawn, I told myself, why rush anything?
I'd backslid before, I'd backslide again. Practice makes perfect.
If you could call it that.
I figured, a few more sins would help round out my resume.
This is the upside of already being eternally damned.
I figured, Hell could wait. — Chuck Palahniuk

Practice makes perfect and although God did create Adam he was more accomplished when the time came for him to create Eve. — Susan Howatch

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect. — James Lafferty

Well, at least I'm not a stubborn, button-pushing, Prius-driving, chip-on-your-shoulder-holding, 'stay-at-home-mom'-is-the-eighth-dirty-word-thinking feminazi! — Julie James

Lesbian?"
Payton turned around and saw J.D. standing there.
Maybe it was the wine. Maybe she was basking in the glow of their successful pitch to Gibson's. Maybe it was her promise to Laney to be the "New Payton," or maybe it was a combination of all those things. But Payton actually found herself smiling at J.D.
It's just an excuse, the lesbian thing," she said. — Julie James

The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

The biggest lie ever is that practice makes perfect. Not true - practice makes you better. — Barbara Oakley

There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect. — Mario Batali

We could fight the fuss till we get like friends,
Or somebody bite the dust and we split like ends.
Even in our wildest moments, girl, I'm on it cause you're worth it.
Practice makes perfect, so we fightin' for a purpose. — ASAP Rocky

Practice never makes you perfect, but it gets you closer to perfection. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show. — Rick Allen

The life-tree of practice is single-minded application. — Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes perfect routine . — Sipendr

I think that you are an uptight, pony-owning, trickle-down-economics-loving, Scotch-on-the-rocks-drinking, my-wife-better-take-my-last-name sexist jerk! — Julie James

My experience had validated the old saw that practice makes perfect. But only if it's the right kind of concentrated, self-conscious, deliberate practice. I'd learned firsthand that with focus, motivation, and, above all, time, the mind can be trained to do extraordinary things. This was a tremendously empowering discovery. It made me ask myself: What else was I capable of doing, if only I used the right approach? — Joshua Foer