“The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander’s.”
Periander, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages
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“In practical administration, experience is everything.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.”
Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Ground Book
“Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.”
Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer
Source: The Perfect Christmas
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Quoted in: Ingo F. Walther (1996), Picasso, p. 67.
Attributed from posthumous publications
“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Part I, Chapter 11, "Vom neuen Götzen" ("The New Idol"). Published in four parts between 1883 and 1891 Another translation: “But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.”
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) American Modernist writer, poet and artist
Letter to Emily Holmes Coleman (2 February 1934) http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/brandelmcdaniel/index/library.htm
