diff --git a/best_practices/configuration.rst b/best_practices/configuration.rst
index df9779b121e..dcd8f42e9f0 100644
--- a/best_practices/configuration.rst
+++ b/best_practices/configuration.rst
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ to control the number of posts to display on the blog homepage:
     parameters:
         homepage.num_items: 10
 
-If you ask yourself when the last time was that you changed the value of
-*any* option like this, odds are that you *never* have. Creating a configuration
+If you've done something like this in the past, it's likely that you've in fact
+*never* actually needed to change that value. Creating a configuration
 option for a value that you are never going to configure just isn't necessary.
 Our recommendation is to define these values as constants in your application.
 You could, for example, define a ``NUM_ITEMS`` constant in the ``Post`` entity: