Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of hard work without seeking attention or recognition, allowing success to speak for itself.
Frank Ocean's quote suggests that one should focus on putting in the effort and dedication required to achieve goals, rather than seeking immediate acknowledgment or praise. The idea is that the results of hard work will ultimately make a loud statement about one's abilities and achievements, allowing success to be the primary source of recognition rather than the act of seeking recognition itself.
In practice
During a motivational speech about perseverance and achieving goals.
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.
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.
The work is the work. The work is not me.
I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.
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