#met

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#essays #exception #i #interesting #me

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#done #get #go #happy #i

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#energy #goes #much #need #negative

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. ↗

— Barack Obama

#asks #because #buck #certain #focusing

Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#away #before #dream #had #know

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends. ↗

— Billy Ocean

#audience #cannot #doctor #doing #feeling

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#art #artistically #because #better #built

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. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#both #empirical #everything #focus #getting

Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#astronaut #being #career #challenging #feel

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#aviation #brother #followed #footsteps #how