The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Well done is better than well said.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
It's always too early to quit.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Wherever you are - be all there.
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.