Gene Weingarten Quotes

Little things happen to us during the course of our lives when we were children that stay with us.

Buy experiences, not things. Spending on experiences makes people happier than spending on things. Things get broken and go out of style. Experiences get better every time you talk about them.

How many likes you get on a selfie will not be what you remember 10 years down the line. The relationships that you form and the memories that you make and the connections that you make with people day to day are the things you remember.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you'd like to witness history.

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.

I had a lot a favorite moments in 2018; I can't even pick one.

And the most important thing isn't the trophies, it's the experiences, what you lived, what's here in your heart, what you know, what you live. No one can ever steal that from you.

People are remembered for defining moments in their career.

There are many people that we meet in our lives. But only a very few will make a lasting impression on our minds and hearts.

Some of the most memorable moments I've had is to have my family along - who are our greatest ambassadors for peace. Politics will never bring peace, but people will.

No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.

The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.

Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.

I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.

Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

Sometimes it's the shortest moments that create the longest impact.'

They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.