You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.