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.
Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.
You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a lot of sides of humanity that the average person is never going to see. And those can often be pretty disheartening, and it can make somebody pretty lonely.
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