Ego Trip Quotes:

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

- Alan Watts

source: "Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969".

topic: Ego, Ego Trip

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

- Frank Gehry

source: "Looking back at Frank Gehry’s building-bending feats". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 11, 2015.

topic: Ego, Stuff, Architecture, Ego Trip, Functionality

To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Thinking, Ego, Persons, Ego Trip

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

- Lauren Myracle

topic: Ego, Want, Way, Treating Others, Ego Trip

Drop jealousy and love wells up. Jealousy means that I am the owner. It is an ego trip, and wherever there is ego there is poison, and the poison kills the very source of love. One has to become aware of just these few things and discard them and one's life becomes a lotus of love. And then there is no need to go in any search of god, god will come in search of you. This is my observation, that god always comes seeking the true seeker. Whenever the disciple is ready the master appears.

- Rajneesh

topic: Jealousy, Mean, Ego, Ego Trip, Seekers

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Ego, Infinity, Ego Trip

You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From where? They all come from unconsciousness. Man lives asleep, man lives mechanically. That mechanism has to be broken, man has to be re-done. That is the religious revolution that has not been tried.

- Rajneesh

source: Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

topic: Religious, Men, Broken, Broken Man, Ego Trip

How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige."

- Rajneesh

topic: Ambition, Mean, Joy, Ego Trip

One has to be very alert to go beyond lust. And one has to be constantly aware of jealousy, of possessiveness, of domination, because those are the strategies of lust. If you drop jealousy, possessiveness, ego trips, then slowly slowly lust disappears and love arises. Love is a pure flame without any smoke. It is prayer, it is divine, and it makes you divine.

- Rajneesh

topic: Jealousy, Prayer, Love Is, Ego Trip, Possessiveness

I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Jobs, Italian, Names, Ego Trip

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

- Robert Maxwell

topic: Ego, Lasts, Last Time, Ego Trip

The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.

- Dada Vaswani

topic: Love, Ambition, Two, Ego Trip

When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.

- Henry Rollins

topic: People, Giving, Ego, Ego Trip

The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Self Esteem, Pride, Perfect, Ego Trip

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

- William Proxmire

topic: Guy, Ego, Hey, Mr Big, Ego Trip

You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain wealth in this world, then you try to attain wealth in that world. But you remain the same, and the mind and the functioning and the whole scheme remains the same: Attain! Reach! This is the ego trip. The achieving mind is the ego.

- Rajneesh

topic: Ego, Mind, Trying, Ego Trip

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

- Werner Herzog

topic: Ambition, Ego, Vision, Ego Trip

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Adventure, Ego, World, Ego Trip

I keep what I know about Sarah Lynn and Lawrence to myself. I also remind myself that even if Sarah Lynn does have a scary strict father, that doesn't release her from the responsibility of treating others with respect. Abuse of power is wrong, no matter the context, no matter the history. What is "power" anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

- Lauren Myracle

topic: Father, Responsibility, Scary, Treating Others, Ego Trip

A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.

- Pam Brown

topic: Beautiful, Stars, Memories, Chief Executives, Ego Trip

One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Attitude, Real, Thinking, Doing Your Own Thing, Permanent Things

There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.

- Richard Rohr

topic: Letting Go, Powerful, Party, Ego Trip

I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

- Jack Kirby

source: Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.

topic: Jobs, Rocks, Creating, Ego Trip

Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible. Meditation is not one pole: it is the absence of all conflict, all ambition, all ego trips.

- Rajneesh

topic: Ambition, Light, Meditation, Ego Trip

I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.

- Roger Zelazny

source: Roger Zelazny (2001). “Prince of Chaos”, G K Hall & Company

topic: Writing, Greatness, Design, Ego Trip

I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

- Sabrina Lloyd

topic: Thinking, Common Sense, Ego, Ego Trip

The moment one starts sharing one`s being without any motive life becomes a sweet fragrance. It is all honey. Then everything remains the same, yet nothing is the same any more. When your heart beats in harmony, in love, in joy, when you are no longer greedy, when there are no desires and no ambitions, and when there are no ego trips any more, one is simply, ordinary, but sweet. That taste is the taste of god.

- Rajneesh

topic: Sweet, Heart, Ambition, Heart Beat, Ego Trip

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

- Thomas Sowell

topic: Self, Media, People, Petty, Ego Trip

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

- Jane Wagner

topic: Ego, Infinity, Ego Trip

Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security.... You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn't stand for that BS if I were you.

- Stuart Wilde

topic: Thinking, Effort, Ego, Ego Trip

When you go to a movie with so many stars [like The Expendables 3], you don't know what you're going to find, exactly. You don't know if it's going to be an ego trip, ego on the set, who is taking this position, where the camera is, I want to be in front of this guy - that's true... It's worse, actually, when you have people around you that are very hungry to obtain something that they never had. Success.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Stars, People, Guy, Ego Trip, Expendables

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

- Steve Martin

source: "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

topic: School, People, Laughing, Ego Trip