Top 100 Practice Makes Quotes
#1. The effect of the mantram is cumulative: constant repetition, constant practice, is required for the mantram to take root in our consciousness and gradually transform it, just as constant repetition makes the advertiser's jingle stick in our minds.
Eknath Easwaran
#2. Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals.
Marc Ostrofsky
#3. When you can begin to see the similarities between you and your work colleagues in respect of 'being human' and the collective challenges we all face, it makes life much easier to deal with, especially when met with overbearing behaviour.
Christopher Dines
#4. Sincere practice, makes the impossible possible.
Dada Vaswani
#5. As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
Tony Kushner
#6. Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain
Evan Sutter
#7. The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.
Cyndi Lee
#8. See me looking like Atlas, when he handle the globe.
I see you looking like Alice, Wonderland is your home.
It makes me wonder if you practice your flow ...
One Be Lo
#10. It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.
Eckhart Tolle
#11. 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
#12. Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#13. Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.
Bruce Lee
#14. 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
#15. Beckendorf walked up with his helmet under his arm. 'She likes you, man.'
'Sure,' I muttered. 'She likes me for target practice.'
'Nah, they always do that. A girl starts trying to kill you, you know she's into you.
'Makes a lot of sense.
Rick Riordan
#16. Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.
Stanley Fish
#17. What makes you wise is not what you learn, but what you practice. What makes you wealthy is not what you earn, but what you invest. So, invest in what to practice, and practice what to invest.
Michael Peshkam
#18. School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
Billie Joe Armstrong
#19. 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
#20. Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.
William James
#21. Adoration outside Holy Mass prolongs and intensifies what has taken place in the liturgical celebration and makes a true and profound reception of Christ possible. I ... warmly recommend, to Pastors and to all the faithful, the practice of Eucharistic adoration
Pope Benedict XVI
#22. Practice makes the Master. You can reconcile what you are and what you want to be.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#23. 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
#25. Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new.
Adam M. Grant
#26. I'm hurting because the color of my skin makes me perfect for their target practice.
R H Sin
#27. I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.
Bell Hooks
#29. 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
#30. Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly
so every stretch won't feel like your first.
Gina Greenlee
#32. If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
Billy Corgan
#33. Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.
Lisa Cron
#34. They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Winston S. Churchill
#35. What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
Alison Gopnik
#36. School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, but if nobody's pefect why practice?
Green Day
#38. I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
Ann Voskamp
#39. As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions.
John Locke
#40. I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
Debbie Gibson
#41. That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
Garth Brooks
#42. Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.
Hamza Yusuf
#43. The difference between the non-Christian and the Christian is that the non-Christian makes sin a practice; the true Christian does not.
Billy Graham
#44. The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.
Roxane Gay
#45. For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.
Erwin McManus
#46. The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#47. Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.
Nancy Duarte
#48. 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
#49. The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human - human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.
Laura Riding
#50. Practice makes perfect, But nothings perfect so why bother practicing?
Christopher Nicole
#51. It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
Bohdi Sanders
#52. To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.
Alphonsus Liguori
#53. Practice builds habits. Our habits are our character. When it comes to virtue, practice makes a very great difference - or rather, all the difference.
Eric Greitens
#54. It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.
Tara Stiles
#55. The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.
Dean Acheson
#56. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning ... and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God" (cf. 5:18). On the surface, these verses appear to say that true Christians should not sin at all.
Anonymous
#57. Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.
Daniel Coyle
#58. I have the feeling we just made a deal with the devil, and he's going to come back and want our first-born child or something."
Daemon waggled his brows. "You want kids? Because you know, practice makes
"
"Shut up." I shook my head and started walking.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#59. Here's other quotes and sayings you can motivate yourself with. Practice only makes for improvement.
Les Brown
#60. Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.
Anupam Kher
#61. Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes perfect routine .
Sipendr
#62. 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
#63. I encourage students to check out different styles of yoga and different teachers even within one system. Seek the teacher that inspires you, and practice the yoga that makes you feel the best. You'll then find the authentic practice for your life and path.
David F. Swensen
#66. Fucking really is one of those activities that "practice makes perfect".
James Lear
#67. You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.
Colm Toibin
#68. I open up my violin case every day, and have one of the great creations. It is very inspiring. It makes you want to practice. How can you open up a case and look at a violin that was made in 1713 by one of the greatest artists in history and then say, "No, I don't feel like practicing today."
Joshua Bell
#69. The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and spiritual practices from the various religions and their application to one's own inner life and development.
Wayne Teasdale
#70. 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
#71. Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
Periander
#72. After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.
Daniel Silva
#74. Patience removes frustration.
Practice restores confidence.
Perseverance makes it happen.
Charles F. Glassman
#75. Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?
Kurt Cobain
#76. When we're coming up to the race, the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I always have the same lunch. So that's before the second practice, before qualifying and before the race, I always have a tuna vegetable risotto. The chef makes it slightly spicy, so there's a bit of a kick.
Valtteri Bottas
#77. 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
#78. No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us ... a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.
Jean Rhys
#79. The continual emotion that is felt in the theater excites us, enervates us, enfeebles us, and makes us less able to resist our passions. And the sterile interest taken in virtue serves only to satisfy our vanity without obliging us to practice it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#80. It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.
Dirk Benedict
#82. No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It's how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable.
Sharon Salzberg
#83. Sometimes, until you do what you shouldn't have done, you least remember what you should have done
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#84. From one hour to the next a life may change.... But as I have thought and said for years, acceptance is a key to strength and practice makes it easier.
Faith Baldwin
#85. 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
#86. Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
Malcolm Gladwell
#88. The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.
Bertrand Russell
#90. Practice never makes you perfect, but it gets you closer to perfection.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#91. In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
Henry Adams
#92. I shot my undergraduate work on 35mm. I love the way it looks, but I haven't shot film in a while. If you can avoid scanning, it makes your practice faster. Oh, and I shoot a lot of Polaroid, too. I have about five hundred Polaroids from my film that I hope to show soon.
Laurel Nakadate
#93. 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
#94. Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other peoples too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway ...
Nancy Gibbs
#95. 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
#96. Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
Anna Louise Strong
#97. Practice makes permentant, never perfection, but perfection is a goal to strive for.
Jordan Mak
#98. It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.
David Richo
#99. Score one for Team Kendall, Payton thought.
Not that it was a competition between them.
Not at all.
Julie James
#100. The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.
John Dewey
