The desire for perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.    Louis Fontanes to Napoleon, 1804.

   A moment of splendour is worth reams of perfection. D.H.L.

   Striving for perfection is unhealthy. Helen McLean, my Gestalt trainer, 1999.


   The only perfection I might aim towards is being perfectly real.

   Perfection is non-existent, a very wild goosechase and striving for it causes any amount of unhappiness.


   improving is different.

       Ivor