Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.
All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.
Coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace.
Coasting only takes you downhill.
When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.
I definitely hope that I'm improving. If I'm not, there's a problem - I'm just coasting.
Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way.
You get one chance to make an impression, and coasting through is a disservice.
In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.
What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [. . . ] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
Insanity is coasting through life.
The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.
