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.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.
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