why do they say practice makes perfect if no one is perfect then why practice?
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You ask an awesome question!  It depends if you take that 'with a grain of salt' or literally.  Literally, it is a lie.... but taken 'with a grain of salt' it simply means that you will get better by practicing, but not perfect.  It is like, in American culture alot of people will greet you and say, "how are you doing", but they really don't want to know who you are doing, they are just saying, a friendly, hello most of the time.
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given the chance to fix one thing in my life, it would be ALL the wrongdoings i have made. but then, if i have been perfect all my life, what's the use of living this life and learning from our own mistakes? those mistakes in the past contributed to the person that we are now. things happen for a reason regardless if it is intentional or not. the best thing to do is to learn from one's mistake and continue living for the better, not for the worst.
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Good question. I think people can aim for perfection in their work, sport, art, or hobby. Those who win awards such as the Pulitzer, Olympic gold, Academy Award, Emmy, and Tony can be argued to have achieved perfection. But it's not a lasting state. Not all the winners are so honored again. If a person wins the blue ribbon for cake making at the local fair, does that mean she/he is the most perfect cake maker in the world? No, it means she/he is recognized as a perfect cake maker only in Such and Such County.\n\nWhat about the holy prophets Jesus or Buddha? Jesus lived without sin. Buddha lived an enlightened life. So, by their own terms both lived a perfect life. I think their lives are an example for people to follow, but I don't know how attainable such perfection is for most people.\n\nMaybe we're thinking about the achievements of people, when we should be thinking of things that are harder to quantify? Isn't a sunrise perfect? How perfect are the waves that crash into the shore? I think for such a term to exist, there has to be someone judging. But consider, maybe ten people won't agree that one sunset is perfect? \n\nI think it is a worthwhile goal to aim for perfection, though I think it is something that isn't always easy to quantify. We are subjective beings by nature. Also, judges--who are supposed to be more objective--aren't always so impartial. Remember the Olympic judging scandal for figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11330407/from/RSS/\nSometimes there is sabotage to the process of selecting the best. Consider the campaign, "Vote for the Worst" which suggests that people vote for the worst singer each week on American Idol as a protest. http://votefortheworst.com/\n\nSo, as a recovering perfectionist I aim for perfect, but sometimes "good enough" is good enough.
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"practce makes a man perfect" its quoted from Bacon.it means practice is the only thing which make us perfect . That means life is the practicing realm .from birth itself we r practicing 4 doing some thing
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I think the saying is just, "Practice makes perfect."  That doesn't mean it makes a man - or woman - perfect.  It means that the more one practices anything (such as music, painting, teaching, whatever), the closer to perfection they come.  But you're right - there is no such thing as perfection.  It is a goal.
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The only PERFECT human being was Christ- We should all strive to be that way even though we fall short it is a goal the faithful strive for so PERFECT= Christlike in my book!\n \nThe only way to fail is to never try!
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I think it is because everyone has their own defintion of perfect. To each individual, 'perfect' has its own limits and therefore if people or ourselves do not reach that limit, we start to critisize it. Its all part of the way the mind works towards things and the competition in order to get to the perfection. Anything below that perfect limit is regarded as an imperfection and seen as something bad. Its a thing that happens with out us noticing. Its just a natural reaction to how well we expect things to be done, and when they dont reach that standard, we critisize it.\n By critisizing, we push ourselves to do the best we can and improve the task given to us. If we never critisized, and saw everything as perfect, i think everyone would be SO lazy because they would see no point in improvement and advancing forward in life.
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You cannot practice to gain talent, practice enables you to keep in shape and focused.
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Becuase no one in the world is perfect.
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I think it's a little deeper than that. perfectionism stems from being too self critical and having unrealistic expectations of being perfect or preforming without making a mistake and lack of self forgivenss and sometimes these same expectations are directed at other individuals \nI think it is healthy to accept that we are human and accept our mistakes and then evaluate and learn from them and move on rather than create alot of negative emotion like selfdestructive self guilt or hate or blaming others this emotional thinking serves no purpose and genrates poor outcomes also if you expect perfection you set yourself up for failure and frustration you eventually burn out because you are not a machine or immortal and it is not possible to always be perfect. doing something good is about your sense of integrity, pride in doing your best and trusting yourself so that others will know they can trust and rely on you because peolpe trust people who do what they say and say what they do and dont trust people who say who they are and what they are going to do and if you have this integrity and make a mistake people tend to not only forgive you but reevaluate their goal "if she can't do it, then no one can or this problem is too difficult for one person to resolve" and they may ask what can I do to help and sometimes we may have unrealistic people like bosses who could not do the job they expect you to do because they only have theory or book knowledge but no real world work experience and their negative judgements dont count cause they dont know what the hell they are talking about. people negatively jude you everyday because of who you are gender race and religion and this is something we need to get over before we step out the front door its life and whoever generates this emotional hate has the problem and you do not have to accept it feed into it or become part of the problem
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you can only have perfect or not, there are not "degrees" of perfection.
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I always had been my own harshest critic.  I thought that by excelling I could be accepted because I saw myself as being unacceptable.  But by choosing unattainable goals, I kept proving to myself that I wasn't good enough because once again, I failed.  Allow yourself to make mistakes, you may have had a childhood as I did in which no one told me it was okay to not be the best...that I was good enough the way I am. You are equal.  When You allow yourself to be equal as a human being, your true potential has an opportunity to express itself because you are no longer in competition with others or yourself, it is no longer neccessary to prove to others that you are better or to prove to yourself that you are a failure.  Be kind to yourself.
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this quote goes deep...it means that not all humans are perfect all humans make mistakes that what they are talkin bout when they say to fail is human....to succeed, devine...well its rather simple. devine means god like. so if u succeed u are god like and everyone knows that gods were supposed to b perfect so there for they never fail only succeed
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careless. They suffer more for the foolish things they do.\na perfectionist may not be happy, but at least they arent constantly "paying" for their poor decisions.
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There is no such thing - we are not perfect. On the other hand, perfection is a relative measure. One is only perfect in the eyes of a partner, and it should be reciprocal for it to be perfect. if two people complete each other and make themselves feel in piece and fulfilled in several levels, they are perfect.
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because no one is perfect!  although, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and love isn't about finding the perfect person, it's about seeing an imperfect person perfectly!
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Every single person you see who passes you in the street has made mistakes, not one of us are exempt from making mistakes, that is because we are human beings.  We do what we do for various reasons...could be the crowd we hang around with...peer pressure.....it could be because we are hurt and want revenge...it could be for a lot of reasons.  But we all grow up, we all learn about sociably acceptable behaviour and that only comes with experience and time.  If we didnt make mistakes, we would be pretty boring people because it is only when we make mistakes do we trully learn who we are.  What has happened in the past had to happen, simply because it did, you cant go back, you cant change it, but you can certainly change the future.  You can choose not to make those kind of mistakes ever again.  Forgiveness is pretty easy if you have a logical mind.  If you can think that the mistakes you made were because of a particular situation in your life, and you did what you did because that was your frame of mind at the time, then you will be able to forgive yourself.  You are not that person any more....that was the old you.  Sometimes I look back on my past and think to myself...."that wasnt me"...and it wasnt.  I am the me I am now,  the me who made all those mistakes and it is those mistakes that has moulded me into the nice person I am today.\n\nIf you dont learn by your mistakes then you wont grow.  You know they are mistakes, so you have learnt and you will become stronger for it.  You need to put your mistakes where they belong,  they were mistakes of the past, so keep them in the past.  Your future is where the positive stuff lay.  Guilt is such a wasted emotion because the only thing it does is make you feel bad, it doesnt change anything...it cant change what has happened...so think logically about it...you cant change it, so what is the good about beating yourself up over it.  Use the energy you have with guilt and put it to more constructive use.  Move forward, do things that make you feel good about yourself, maybe go and do some voluteer work.  Start thinking good things, start doing good things and you will find out the mistakes of your past gives you the knowledge you have today.  You could use that knowledge for good.  You may be in a position where your mistakes could help some person in the future because you have been there, done that.  Use your mistakes to your advantage....learn from them.  You can do it.  We all make mistakes,  it is something we have all suffered from at some time.  The reason I know you are a decent and wonderful person is because you feel bad about your mistakes....that shows you have a conscience, therefore you cannot be a bad person because bad people dont have a conscience.  Move on...go on to achieve wonderful things and you will have your mistakes to thank for your success.