Practice Makes Perfect Quotes:

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

- Periander

topic: Practice, Perfect, Practice Makes Perfect, Perfect Practice

Perfect practice makes perfect.

- Twyla Tharp

topic: Practice, Perfect, Practice Makes Perfect, Perfect Practice

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

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Success, Softball, Sports Football, Motivational Coaching

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

- Brian Tracy

topic: Philosophy, Practice, Littles, Continuous Improvement, Practice Makes Perfect

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

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspiring, Success, Life And Love, Spiritual Disciplines, Monday Morning Motivational

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

- Sparky Anderson

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

topic: Success, Recipe For Success, Practice Makes Perfect, Motivational Success

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

- Bruce Lee

topic: Practice, Long, Perfect, Practice Makes Perfect

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

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

topic: Basketball, Practice, Eight, Motivational Basketball, Chairman

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

source: FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Mar 19, 2015

topic: Practice Makes Perfect

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward, “Do More”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Dream, Practice Makes Perfect, Love And Kindness

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

- Hamza Yusuf

topic: Practice, Perfect, Not Perfect, Practice Makes Perfect

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Art, Practice, Drawing, Drawing And Painting, Practice Makes Perfect

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

topic: Winning, Two, Assuming, Practice Makes Perfect

Practice makes perfect.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

topic: Practice Makes Perfect

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

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Famous Basketball, Motivational Basketball

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

topic: Years, Practice, Special, Practice Makes Perfect

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

topic: Art, Practice, Tasks, Easy Tasks, Practice Makes Perfect

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

- Kurt Cobain

topic: Practice, Perfect, Perfection, Perfect Practice, Practice Makes Perfect

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Horse, Riding, Teach, Practice Makes Perfect

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

topic: Diligent, Practice Makes Perfect

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

topic: Inspiration, Opportunity, Practice, Raises Questions, Practice Makes Perfect

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

topic: Dance, Believe, Writing, Writing Every Day, Practice Makes Perfect

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

- David Richo

topic: Practice, Perfect, Effort, Practice Makes Perfect

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

- Billie Joe Armstrong

topic: School, Practice, Perfect, Perfect Practice, Practice Makes Perfect

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

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

topic: Practice, Perfect, Truth Is, Practice Makes Perfect

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

- Ed Sheeran

topic: Writing, Tunes, Gigs, Fingers Crossed, Perfect Things

Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Encouragement, Practice, Perfect, Practice Makes Perfect

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

- Billy Corgan

topic: Practice, Perfect, Rhetorical Question, Perfect Practice, Practice Makes Perfect

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

- Lloyd Alexander

topic: Thinking, Practice, Matter, Practice Makes Perfect, Overthinking

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

- Lauren Tarshis

topic: Writing, Advice, Important, Practice Makes Perfect

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

topic: Funny, Teacher, School, Practice Makes Perfect, Nobody's Perfect

Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.

- Daniel Coyle

source: "Practice makes perfect?". "All in the Mind", www.abc.net.au. November 5, 2011.

topic: Practice, Perfect, Practice Makes Perfect

... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ...

- Julian Bream

topic: Music, Practice, Scales, Practice Makes Perfect

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

- Thom Mayne

topic: Writing, Years, Discipline, Haiku, Practice Makes Perfect

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

topic: Mean, Practice, Perfect, Never Stop Learning, Perfect Practice

My best film is always my next film. I couldn't make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink I've forgotten how I did it. I don't believe in film school or film theory. Just try and get in there and make the bloody film, do good work and be with people you love.

- Christopher Doyle

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, School, People, Practice Makes Perfect, Cinematography

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

topic: Thinking, Practice, Perfect, Perfect Practice, Practice Makes Perfect

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

topic: Girl, Rap, Fighting, Practice Makes Perfect

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

source: "An Introduction and Rallying Cry" by Mario Batali, www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.

topic: Practice, Two, Perfect, Cooking Love, Practice Makes Perfect