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.
Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!
If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesnβt show yet.
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.
I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps
Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.
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