Who seeks shall find.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Never complain and never explain.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you think you can do it, you can.
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.