Peter Thiel Quotes

Phenomenons only happen once in a lifetime.

When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.

This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show.

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

Jon Scoffield was an incredible director and producer at ATV. I met him when I was 30 and he made great things happen in my career. He's still alive, but we're no longer in touch.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.

I know that meeting a black woman with a love for hockey is a bit like stumbling upon a unicorn in the woods... or a unicorn anywhere. I'm sure it'd be just as surreal finding a unicorn in downtown Chicago. But here I am.

For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

Well, the LeBron James of the world don't come around very often. That's a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing.

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.

Star people are rare.

To have what few have, do what few do.

Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.

Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.