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“The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.”

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Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.”

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Book:Seven novels and other short stories

Source: Seven novels and other short stories

“One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.”

Has Beens States Principles Perfection Productions Artistic Being Wrong Irregularity

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.”