J. M. Coetzee Quotes

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

The only slogan needed for all human problems is “Press on.”

If there's a wall, we break it down and go through it.

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

A new breeze is blowing--and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on: there is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.

A lot of people in their mind think ‘If there is a problem this is what I would do, this is how I would do it.’ But the truth is they don’t really know. Parkour teaches you to be sure of what you are able to do.

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Successful people don’t wait for everything to be perfect to move forward.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Ka works and the world moves on.

Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.

All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.