“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)
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“The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander’s.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Periander, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages
“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
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
