Quotes of: Practice-makes-perfect Keyword

For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing.

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

Secularization—that is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this fading age—is not just something that happens to the church; it is something that happens in the church. In fact, it’s di...

The Gospel Commission: Recovering God's Strategy for Making Disciples

It is good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true' or 'false', but as 'academic' or practical', 'outworn' or 'contemporary', 'conventional' or 'ruthless'. Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying ...

The Screwtape Letters

And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to ...

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law,...

Clarence Darrow

One day in perfect health is a lot.

Arabian

A beautiful thing is never perfect.

Egyptian

The first thing anybody tells you about this business is to say what makes you unique and different, but I couldn’t and the very idea of it never sat well with me and after much deliberation, I finally realized why. Because, I’m not unique or dif...

The Perfect Tear

Make no mistake,' He says, 'if you let me, I will make you perfect. The moment you put yourself in My hands, that is what you are in for. Nothing less, or other, than that. You have free will, and if you choose, you can push Me away. But if you do no...

C.S. Lewis

Jesse: You're just like the little girls and everybody else. You wanna live inside some fairy tale. I'm just trying to make things better. I tell you that I love you unconditionally, I tell you that you're beautiful, I tell you that your ass looks gr...

Before Midnight

In Chinese business culture, humility is a virtue.

Chinese Business Etiquette: The Practical Pocket Guide

Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.

Peter Bergman

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

Ray Charles

Practice daily, because the quality of your practice determines the Caliber of your performance.

Robin S. Sharma

I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

King Tuff

Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

Buddy Rich

It's not about the games it's about practice and when you practice, go hard!!

Alcurtis Turner

Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong...ever.

Ziad K. Abdelnour