If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
Photography is an act of love.
It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.
The problem suggests the solution.
You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides.
You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.