“In school they told me "Practice makes perfect."”

“School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, but if nobody's pefect why practice?”

Green Day

“Practice makes perfect' is bullshit. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”

Ron Barassi

“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.”

Wilt Chamberlain (1936–1999) basketball player

“Administration, which calls for the application of wide knowledge and many personal qualities, is above all the art of handling men, and in this art, as in many others, it is practice that makes perfect. This is one of the reasons why we should release our future engineers for practical work as early as possible; there are many drawbacks to staying too long at school.”

Henri Fayol (1841–1925) Developer of Fayolism

“As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.”

Joseph Smith, Jr. book History of the Church