Peter Thiel Quotes

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.

You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.

I have found a love for acting, but I also would like to live abroad for awhile or definitely go to college someday.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want.

The people I met and the places I been Are all what make me the man I so proudly am.

Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do. But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you'll figure out what you were made to do, because you'll be great at some things and you'll be terrible at others.

I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.

I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences.

other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acquire over time with the help of the people who love you that that's when you can really get down to what you really think and believe.

Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.

But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.

But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.