Quotes with naïve

  • That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
  • If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.
  • The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
  • It's a naïve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
  • Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.
  • We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
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  • Bonnie Tyler Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Saul Bellow Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bethany McLean Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Bill Gurley Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Abraham H. Maslow I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Anne Michaels I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.
    Verborgen verleden (2010) 116
    Anne Michaels
    Canadian poet (1958 - )
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  • Anais Nin I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Jean Baudrillard If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Anatole France It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • James Thurber It's a naïve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Walker Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Carol Leifer Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • Alfred Eisenstaedt Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
    Alfred Eisenstaedt
    German-born American photographer and photojournalist (1898 - 1995)
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  • Billy Bragg That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Ben Barnes That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Norman Tebbit The word ''conservative'' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
    Norman Tebbit
    British politician (1931 - )
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  • Jean Rostand We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Blake Mycoskie When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Brian K. Vaughan When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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