What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you think you can do it, you can.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Never complain and never explain.
Always desire to learn something useful.
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.