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

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new.

Experience can be a very bad teacher, indeed, or not teacher at all. It is like the silly phrase, “Practice makes perfect.” In most cases, practice merely confirms us in our errors, and the longer we do something the wrong way - that is, without enlightenment and instruction- the more fixed we become in our folly.

you are not perfect

You're not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.

we need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong...ever.

He's not perfect. You are not either

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley