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

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

Green Day

“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

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

Ron Barassi

“Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

“The best compliment I ever got in my life came from Chairman Mao of China. When I went there, at a time when nobody wanted to touch China with a 10-foot pole, Mao told me that I'm beautiful because I'm a natural, and he said natural is perfection. So, no character assassination can diminish me and my perfection.”

Imelda Marcos (1929) Former First Lady of the Philippines

“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

“Why everything that's supposed to be bad make me feel so good?
Everything they told me not to is exactly what I would.
Man, I tried to stop, man, I tried the best I could, but
You make me smile.”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter