practice makes perfect

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practice makes perfect

  1. If one practices an activity enough, one will eventually master it.
    • 1986, R.E.M. (lyrics and music), “I Believe”, in Lifes Rich Pageant:
      Golden words make practice, practice makes perfect, perfect is a fault, and fault lines change.

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  • Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, →ISBN, p. 281.