Practice Makes Perfect Quotes

• Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Success, Softball

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• Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Philosophy, Practice

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.11, Jaico Publishing House

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• Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspiring, Success, Life And Love

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 23, 2017

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• Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

  Sparky Anderson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Sparky Anderson, Dan Ewald (1990). “Sparky!”, Touchstone

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

  Bruce Lee

  Practice, Long, Perfect

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• You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Eight, Practice

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• Super-successf ul people aren’t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition.

  Jack Canfield

  Practice, People, Competition

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Mar 19, 2015

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• Do more than believe: practice.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Believe, Practice

  William Arthur Ward, “Do More”

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• Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Practice, Perfect, Wrong Things

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• As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Practice, Drawing

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Perfect practice makes perfect.

  Twyla Tharp

  Practice, Perfect, Perfect Practice

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• When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

  Bill Bradley

  Inspirational, Sports, Hard Work

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• Practice makes perfect.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Practice, Perfect

  Benjamin Franklin (2011). “The Articles of Confederation (邦聯條例)”, p.233, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

  Kenny G

  Inspirational, Music, Years

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• Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Practice, Tasks

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• Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

  Kurt Cobain

  Practice, Perfect, Perfection

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• No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

  C. S. Lewis

  Horse, Riding, Teach

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 3)”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• 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

  Hard Work, Thinking, Self

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• The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to master practical skills, to raise questions, experiment, and explore.

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  Inspirational, Happy, Buddhist

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• Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

  Periander

  Practice, Perfect, Perfect Practice

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• Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, even when they are at the peak of their careers – especially then. Somehow, we don’t take writing as seriously. But writing – writing wonderfully – takes just as much dedication.

  Theodora Goss

  Dance, Believe, Writing

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

  David Richo

  Practice, Perfect, Effort

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  School, Practice, Perfect

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• To sum up: it's time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.

  Daniel Coyle

  Practice, Perfect, Truth Is

  Daniel Coyle (2010). “The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown”, p.44, Random House

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