The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Never complain and never explain.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Know or listen to those who know.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.