I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
Interpretation
Fear often prevents people from taking risks, even when those fears are unfounded.
In this quote, Frank Ocean reflects on the nature of fear and risk, suggesting that many people allow irrational fears to dictate their actions. This sentiment encourages individuals to evaluate their fears critically and recognize that not all perceived dangers are worthy of the anxiety they provoke.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges, one might say, 'As Frank Ocean points out, we often let fear stand in our way, but we must learn to confront it.'
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
For every Harvey Weinstein, there's three or four thousand other pastors, coaches, teachers, uncles, cousins, and stepfathers who are committing the same crimes. We have to keep that in focus and we have to keep talking about it.
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
I have never felt as violated in myself as I had since the DoD team started to torture me to get me admit to things I haven't done.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.
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