The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Well done is better than well said.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
After a storm comes a calm.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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.