David McCullough Quotes

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Every human being makes mistakes.

I'm very human.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

I've realized that these people you look up to - watching Aaron Rodgers, watching Tom Brady - they're humans just like I am. They can make mistakes. They're just people.

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.

The ones I love most are the people who the flaws show. I like doing characters that we see the total person. If people get afraid to show the flaws because they think, "Oh, then nobody will like them," then you end up with a lot of products, and everybody wants to be frigging heroic all the time - not what people are trapped in every day, like your skirt being in your panties after you walk out of the bathroom. Being human. Sometimes when people are drawn to your work, they're drawn because they recognize themselves or their loved ones or their neighbor in it.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Nobody wants to watch perfect people.

Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

The most interesting people are never perfect.

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a fact wrong or a date wrong or something like that, as long as you tried as best you could. If you've done the kind of research that you're sure is pretty good, then you just have to have confidence in it, so that nothing is perfect in life. I think that is what the criticism has helped me to understand.

You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

I don't think kids should think their lives have to be perfect or have a filter or the best angle or anything like that. I think it's important to see that everybody is human and everyone has their ups and downs.

Because Dr. King was human and not divine - although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man - and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.