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Perfect practice makes perfect.
Sep 30, 2025
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.
Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?
If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit.
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Leaders are made, they are not born
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as it was applicable in one's own particular circumstance. Not in an idiotic sense -- it doesn't mean that every Christian should grow a beard, or be a bachelor, or become a travelling preacher. It means that every single act and feeling, every experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, must be referred to God.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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