Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
Carl Orff

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.
Teilhard de Chardin

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Leon Trotsky

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William Jerrold

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Nicolas de Chamfort

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
Philip Knight

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.
Sean Kinney

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. Du Bois