Genius at FIRST is LITTLE more than a GREAT CAPACITY for receiving DISCIPLINE.

My dad discouraged me and my older sister watching too much TV. I don't want to PORTRAY them as CRAZY HIPPIES, but I definitely feel like I was influenced by their creativity. But did I want to have an acting career myself? I didn't think so. I think my GOAL really was to direct. I really wanted to make stories in that capacity.

I am looking for a lot of MEN who have an infinite capacity to not KNOW what can't be done.

Lincoln had a tremendous CAPACITY for personal GROWTH - more than any other AMERICAN President.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the DAMAGE, we tend to forget that the human CAPACITY for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is ALSO a crucial SURVIVAL TOOL.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent REPETITION and GRADUALLY increasing familiarity with the SERIES this capacity of consciousness may be INCREASED.

I OBVIOUSLY WORK really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really BIG and have the DISCIPLINE to materialize those DREAMS.

I have the CAPACITY of being more wicked than any example that MAN COULD SET me.

You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we FEEL or the one that worries about MAKING sure that the next GENERATION has the CAPACITY to EAT everybody's lunch.

Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to DEVELOP the CAPACITY to expose your own IGNORANCE in ORDER that they may discover their own wisdom.

I'm a FAN of Oliver Stone. I like his MOVIES, I like his excess, and I think he has a great CAPACITY for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other FILMS, even the formal 'I'm identifying with the UNDERDOG' movies like 'Born on the Fourth of July.'