#your

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#ahead #decency #dignity #getting #hard

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#burst #bury #garden #graveyard #green

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account. ↗

— Dave Obey

#account #bank #bank account #based #burned

Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#happens #high #last #live #long

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

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#cos #ever #i #i can #just

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. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#art #artistically #better #certain #certain level

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

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#idea #me #recognising #strengths #them

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds. ↗

— Ashley Olsen

#because #being #body #driving #followed