Practice Makes Perfect Quotes

“I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you.”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“We're out of time, Payton. You said it yourself: the only way we'll make it is for us to go into this together. I know we can do this. But I need you to believe it. You need to believe... in us."

Peyton didn't say anything for a long moment, and J.D. could literally hear his heart beating. Then she finally answered.

"It would have to be called Kendall and Jameson."

It took J.D a moment to catch on. Then he grinned. "No way. Jameson and Kendall. It's alphabetical."

"You told our boss that you banged me on top of your desk."

"Kendall and Jameson sounds great”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“I think that you are an uptight, pony-owning, trickle-down-economics-loving, Scotch-on-the-rocks-drinking, my-wife-better-take-my-last-name sexist jerk!”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“Well, at least I’m not a stubborn, button-pushing, Prius-driving, chip-on-your-shoulder-holding, ‘stay-at-home-mom’-is-the-eighth-dirty-word-thinking feminazi!”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“J.D. scoffed at this. “Please—as if I’m worried about anything Payton has to say. What’s she going to do, give me another one of her little pissed-off hair flips?” He flung imaginary long hair off his shoulders, exaggerating. “I’ll tell you, one of these days I’m going to grab her by that hair and . . .” He gestured as if throttling someone.
Without breaking stride, he returned Tyler’s serve. The two smashed a few back and forth, concentrating on the game when—
Is violence always part of your sexual fantasies?” Tyler interjected.
J.D. whipped around—
Sexual—?”
—and got hit smack in the face with the squash ball. He toppled back and sprawled ungracefully across the court.
Tyler stepped over and twirled his racquet. “This is nice. We should talk like this more often.”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“Keep practicing," he told her.
"Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her.

"No. Until you don't get it wrong.”
― John Flanagan, The Royal Ranger

“Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with “The Moment”—that moment where you first walk into the bar or restaurant or coffee shop and scan the crowd and suddenly your heart stops and you say to yourself: oh, please—let it be him.”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

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

“Then I should be able to say anything I want, right? Even the word ‘penis’?”
Laney sighed. “Do we have to do this right now?”
You should try saying the word sometime.”
I’ll pass, thank you.”
Payton shrugged. “Your choice, but I think you’d find it liberating. Everybody could use a good ‘penis’ now and then.”
Laney glanced nervously around the coffee shop. “People are listening.”
Sorry—you’re right. Good rule of thumb: if you’re gonna throw out a ‘penis’ in a public place, it should be soft. Otherwise it attracts too much attention.”
The woman at the next table gaped at them.”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“I’m a bit of a novice myself.” She smiled. Then she turned back to Jasper. “And please, call me Payton.”
Like one of my favorite quarterbacks,” Jasper grinned.
Only with an a instead of an e. And slightly fewer yards in passing,” Payton said. Damn—now she’d already blown one of the three measly sports references she knew in the first two minutes.
Jasper laughed. “Slightly fewer yards in passing—I like that.” He turned to J.D., gesturing to Payton. “Where have you been hidin’ this girl, J.D.?”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“Score one for Team Kendall, Payton thought.
Not that it was a competition between them.
Not at all.”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“TEMPORARY INSANITY.”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“Lesbian?”
Payton turned around and saw J.D. standing there.
Maybe it was the wine. Maybe she was basking in the glow of their successful pitch to Gibson’s. Maybe it was her promise to Laney to be the “New Payton,” or maybe it was a combination of all those things. But Payton actually found herself smiling at J.D.
It’s just an excuse, the lesbian thing,” she said.”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“You can buy an expensive violin, but you can’t buy 10 years of practice.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“Oh right,P and P ,” J.D. said. “You know, Tyler, you might want to pick up your balls—I think they just fell right off when you said that.”
― Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect

“Practice doesn’t make perfect if you’re doing it wrong.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Because of nothing but training, some people can effortlessly do something we cannot do even terribly.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You can't write a sonnet if you have to look up the spelling of each word as you go.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

“Any neural pathway is built and strengthened through repetitions. This is why practice is so vital.”
― Britt Andreatta, Wired to Resist: The Brain Science of Why Change Fails and a New Model for Driving Success

“Practice exaggerates talent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To become a better 'player' of the game, it is very important to keep practicing and have self-control.”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“I can die?” Hayley squeaked.

“We can all die,” he said with a shrug.

She pursed her lips at that. No shit, everyone can die, it’s that opposite part of living. But… “How likely is the dying part? Like…plague rips apart a village, or knock your head on a rock and maybe bleed from your eyeballs certain death?”

“That,” the knight returned to his march through the masses, “depends entirely upon you.”
― SE Zbasnik, Squire Hayseed

“I have a goal: learn to play guitar in five months and be ready for the New Slits gig. I feel like a contestant on the reality-TV show
Faking It. Take a bored Hastings housewife and turn her into a punk-rock guitarist in five months.
[...]
I ignore the pain of the wire cutting into the pads of my fingers. I don’t watch TV, read newspapers, meet anyone for coffee or lunch or do anything that will take a second away from my playing. I just do the minimum I have to do domestically and that’s it. Everything else stops. I take the guitar with me wherever I go, it’s always in the back of the car; if my daughter’s at a tennis lesson, I sit in the car, push the front seat back and practice whilst I wait for her.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“The Beautiful Thing About Discipline... It Can Work Wonders.”
― Wesam Fawzi

“Practice leads to perfection and perfection leads to succession.”
― iamjensen

“One cannot improve any skill without regular practice.”
― Adriana Vandelinde

“Keep practicing, keep winning!
^”
― DON SANTO

“Living life is a daily practice
the more I focus and practice
the better my life becomes

from Daily Life Adjustments”
― Allan Rufus - Daily Life Adjustments

“The best hacks, tricks and tips won't help you if you are not willing to be bad for long enough to to get good at something because after theory you have to practice. No amount of theoretical knowledge can substitute for practical mastery.”
― Jeff Ocaya

“I don’t want to see any part of Annie change. Not a single thing. I’ve never met anyone like her before—and it would be a damn shame for her to morph into some popular social construct of what a woman should be like on dates. I hate it. If some jackass doesn’t take the time to peel back her layers of nervousness to find out who she really is, he doesn’t deserve to have her when she’s at her most comfortable.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect