If Nothing is perfect...then how can practice make perfect?

Answer 1

"Nothing" is perfect because "nothing" is the only the abstract that doesn't change. In humans the ego is what changes. Therefore one has to practice dropping the ego in order to reach a perfect state.
Practice really does not define what is being practiced, but rather the devotion, dedication, discipline and perserverence of the person practicing.
For a person to become perfect or "nothing" one has to drop the ego. When a violinist drops the ego and becomes one with the music, the violinist becomes "nothing" or one with the music and the audience hears only the music and is not distracted by the musician in anyway. A religious person loses their ego and becomes one with what they seek. They become "nothing" and yet they are completely Enlightened or perfect.

Answer 2

Who says nothing is perfect? You CAN pitch a perfect game in baseball or get a perfect score on a test and occasionally, there are times when everything comes together at the same time and the "moment is perfect". Though it may be RARE, sometimes things CAN be perfect and that usually comes from practice, practice, practice!

Answer 3

Perfection is an abstract goal and it doesn't matter if you actually reach it.

My father used to tell me that practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. There's some wisdom in that I suppose because the kind of practice you do is important but then again I'm so far from being a perfectionist myself that its all more or less meaningless.

Answer 4

One of these sayings must be incorrect. If it is "practice makes perfect", here's the answer.

Perfection is, to borrow from mathematics, an asymptote that is tangent to a curve representing quality. Quality approaches perfection, but never achieves it in this life. Practice advances that quality toward perfection, but once again, does not acheive it.

If "Nothing is perfect" is incorrect, then simply practicing will sometimes cuse you to acheive perfection in whatever you're doing.

Answer 5

This saying is not really meant literally. It is said but it is understood that it means by practicing alot you will improve what you are doing or learning and get really good at it, even excellent (yet never perfect because we are not perfect).

Answer 6

practice only gives you the illiusion of perfection. When actualy you are just as imperfect as your first try because the more you practice the more better your next move should be anyhow. So perhaps it should be effort makes perfect because we are all perfect no matter what anyone else trys to tell you. :)

Answer 7

Every thing and every individual is uniquely perfect. So practice for your unique perfection is perfect for you.

Answer 8

Yes no one or nothing is perfect
I guess what this is referring to though
if you start something new and it is not working
one has to persist or persevere
one can work at what they are doing until its like second nature.

Answer 9

practicing makes you closer and closer to perfect
and some actually achieve it or near perfect anyway.

Answer 10

Touche! Well, both saying are full of it, yeah, both. Just some sentences that someone made up to make people feel better, annoy people, or drive people nuts. Sad thing is, these sayings "will be around long after we are dead." There is another one...