“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?”

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

“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.”

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

“Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.”

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

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

“If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.”

“It’s a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at.”

“In school they told me "Practice makes perfect." And then they told me "Nobody's perfect," so then I stopped practicing.”