Practice makes perfect.

Meaning: The more you do something, the better you will become at it.

Choice of Words: Practice means to do or perform an activity or exercise repeatedly in order to improve or maintain one's skills, while makes means to cause something to happen or exist, and perfect means having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics.

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Repetition leads to excellence.

Meaning: This means the same as "Practice makes perfect."

Choice of Words: Repetition means doing something again and again. Leads is a verb that shows that repetition is the cause of something happening. Excellence means being very good at something. When you put them together, "Repetition leads to excellence" means that doing something over and over will help you become very good at it.

The more you do something, the better you get at it.

Meaning: This means the same as "Practice makes perfect."

Choice of Words: The more means the amount of something increases. Do is a verb that means to perform an action. Something is a placeholder word that can refer to any action. The better means the quality of something improves. Get is a verb that shows that the quality of something is changing. At it means the action that is being done. When you put them together, "The more you do something, the better you get at it" means that the more you practice something, the better you will become at it.

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