So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.
I was always ranked last in my class. My problem was that I would obtain a just pass and move on to the next class!
Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.
There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.
You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.
It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning.
When you just coast through work and don't feel inspired, I feel you are lying to yourself.
With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.
If you're falling in love with several people, it's really important to not just continue coasting in the relationships and start taking big steps towards permanence, especially before you're going to meet someone's family.
You save most fuel by lifting and coasting in the heavy braking zones at the end of long straights into slow corners.
I didn't pass my degree due to never handing in an acceptable dissertation, and while it didn't harm me in the long run, my failure to complete the course properly probably led me to spend the next six years or so coasting, unsure of what to do next.
And all Niki really has to do now is coast
I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out.
Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.
You get one chance to make an impression, and coasting through is a disservice.
My policy is to do the least amount to get by.
The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older ... It should be the other way around: Work out hard when you're a kid you should be able to coast when you get older. But unfortunately you have to do more to stay in the same position.
The only way to coast is downhill.
I definitely hope that I'm improving. If I'm not, there's a problem - I'm just coasting.
I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject to the law of diminishing returns.
