Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Leap, and the net will appear.
After a storm comes a calm.
I can, therefore I am.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Who seeks shall find.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.