Quotes of: Practice-makes-perfect Keyword

Meteorologist see perfect in strange things, and the meshing of three completely independent weather systems to form a hundred-year event is one of them. My God, thought Case, this is the perfect storm.

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

In this temporal existence, perfection is an illusion, regardless of those who believe in its concept. Perfection is devoid of any value. Perfection, after all, implies you've reached the zenith. There is no possibility or potentiality. There is no r...

Lionel Suggs

Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us b...

How Fiction Works

You’ve got to live right, too. It’s the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That’s the...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

The Practice of Everyday Life

Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not.

How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life

I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car.

Hunter Hayes

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

Jane Elliot

He makes me weak and vulnerable and absolutely perfect in all of my flaws. Like a human.

Sarah Noffke

None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.

Michael Huffington

Nobody's perfect, but I hold myself accountable. I think about the choices I make because they not only affect me, they affect all of my fans and my family.

Joey Lawrence

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equatio...

Maurice Ravel

The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Perfection is an illusion. Allow yourself room to make mistakes and permission to be happy regardless of outcome.

Dawn Gluskin

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Thomas a Kempis

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Ariel Gore

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

Adam Osborne

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

Anne Rice

Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don't really want it at all, though perhaps they can't admit it. After all, our culture makes individual freedom, autonomy and fulfillment the very highest values, and thoughtful people...

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God