Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Rogan - Page 2

We have to start treating each other as if we are treating ourselves living another life.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.

Live your life like you're the hero in your movie and right now.

If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you in a good direction. But you're gonna stay on that road because you are attached to an ideology. It could be a terrible road, but you stick with it regardless of rational thinking.

There's a direct correlation between positive energy and positive results.

A unicorn is a donkey from the future

There's a very famous Miyamoto Musashi quote. "Once you understand the way broadly, you can see it in all things." The idea is once you understand what excellence is all about, whether it's in painting, or carpentry or martial arts, that you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline. I think that all the different things that I do enhance all the other things that I do.

People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings.

Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.

You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions and billions of other pieces. Whether that's organic components, living organisms inside your body, bacteria or whatever it is, you're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.

The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don't workout.

Choose To Be Inspired.

I want to make sure that everything that I'm creating, I'm creating it so other people get enjoyment out of it. And that's the reward that you get for that.

No girl wants a secretly gay boyfriend, every dude wants a secretly gay girlfriend.

Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.

Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.

It's a weird experience when you're just trying to talk openly about how you think psychedelic drugs and marijuana are beneficial, or a lot of different drugs, especially plant-based ones, can be beneficial. Especially those ones that have some connection to organic life, I feel like you can learn something from them, from mushrooms, from peyote, from marijuana. They can be used as a tool.

Maybe we can combine 2 things that everybody loves. Helping out the poor and blow jobs.

Be the hero of your own story.

If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever

I realized a long time ago that instead of being jealous you can be inspired and appreciative. It carries more energy to you... That can be an awesome motivating force that can improve your life if you choose to be inspired and not jealous. One (being jealous) has no benefit whatsoever, the other is an incredible resource for creating momentum and improvement.

There's only 2 reasons that you hate gay marriage; 1. You're dumb, or 2. You're secretly worried that dicks are delicious.

Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.

Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.

One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.

The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to be illegal.

The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel.

I always try to look at conflicts from as many different angles as is humanly possible, and in a lot of ways there is no one answer.

We live in a society that makes it really easy for these pussies to get by.

Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

If you're dumb enough to do crack, you're supposed to die. It's evolution.

I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.

I realized a long time ago that instead of being jealous you can be inspired and appreciative. It carries more energy to you.

I've been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there's ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that's a huge gift. To be able to turn that back around.

For many people the reason why they're idiots is not necessarily that their brain doesn't work well, it's that they got in a terrible pattern.

The quicker we all realize that we've been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past the quicker we can move to a global ethic of community that doesn't value invented borders or the monopolization of natural resources, but rather the goal of a happier more loving humanity.

If you haven't peed the bed, you haven't taken enough chances.

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.

Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.

Kindness is one of the best gifts you can bestow... We know that inherently that feels great.

The beautiful thing about podcasting is it's just talking. It can be funny, or it can be terrifying. It can be sweet. It can be obnoxious. It almost has no definitive form. In that sense it's one of the best ways to explore an idea, and certainly much less limiting than trying to express the same idea in stand up comedy. For some ideas stand up is best, but it's really, really nice to have podcasts as well.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don't even realize it.

The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion

You can't measure what's inside a man's heart.

When you're jealous, especially of someone else's art or creations you automatically put up these selfish walls that reinforce your stupid ideas. It's hard to pull those walls down and look at what you're hiding. Look at your own weakness and realize that the jealousy came from knowing that you're intimidated by someone else's work, and that when you compare it to your own, you fall short.

You're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.

People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

It's a very strange thing when you make nature illegal.

Selling your life to sit in a box and work for a machine. An uncaring machine that demands productivity that doesn't understand you and doesn't want to understand you... There's no natural behaviour. Everyone is wearing clothes they don't want to wear. Everybody is showing up and doing something they don't want to do. They have no connection to it. That's the problem with our society.

So instead of investing your time in a passion, you’ve sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn’t understand you. That’s the problem with our society. And what’s the reward? Go home and get a big TV.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

The number one reason why marijuana is illegal is because the Pharma Cartel does not want you to grow your own medicine. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. The first car ever made ran on hemp oil. Hemp seeds are also the healthiest food on the planet with the highest protein content out of any plant.

I thought eventually I'd have a family and I really didn't want to be a loser like that guy in his 40s still shopping his band's shitty demo tapes around.

This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.