Rory Freedman Quotes

With work and life, your true depth can become an alien thing to you. Your gut feelings, your instincts become buried.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude - the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

I have instincts.

Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

Subconsciously - I didn't know it then, I realize it today when I know a little bit more about the mind and the brain - I fought like I didn't deserve to live.

I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

At the end of the day, you have to make sure you're at least listening to what your head is telling you, what your heart is telling you. That's hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

I listen to myself, I listen to my body, my mind; I follow my heart.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.