Naive Quotations | Page 2

The narrow, no-nonsense skeptic is every bit as naive as the breezy-brained New Age believer.

Some people would say: 'Stay in Dallas. The situation there is good.' We're three-quarters of the way through building a brand new house in Dallas. Hopefully I'm not viewed as a young, naive coach coming into a situation here. I'm excited about this opportunity. I know it's a challenge and we're going to roll our sleeves up.

You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun to remain in that naive place as you go along, and be able to continue to discover things about your character as the writers come up with them.

At first I thought, 'he's a teenager, he's irritable,' but then I knew it was more than that. Then he finally said he was really depressed, so we got him help. He was a lot better for a while, and then I started to notice things missing. His wardrobe was shrinking, his jewelry missing. I just had suspicions. In hindsight, I wish I had taken him for drug testing. But being naive about the whole thing, I didn't.

It's only week five. We'd be negligent if we didn't start getting more people ready, because we're running out of people. I'm not naive to the fact that when you play true freshmen, hold onto your hat, there's things that are going to happen that are beyond explanation.

It's simply naive and sophomoric to think that Senator Thomas' efforts are somehow late.

It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption

I've done a lot of color, and I've gone further with geometric prints, ... I went to a much more naive hand, and some of them were done with construction paper and Spiralgraphs, almost like a child would do them.

New York state has a lot of charms, but it's naive to think other states don't have their own charms. New York has been making that naive mistake for too long and our population numbers prove it.

The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research.

They hit the jackpot with us -- a Native American tribe with a fairly new casino, in the midst of a political transition, and naive to the underworld of governmental affairs.

There's this naive belief in our soccer that everything is going to be solved by naming a new coach. These plans are based on the idea that if we get the system right then the new man has a better chance of succeeding.

There was a naive quality in 1982 around technology and the start of video games. And that's like the start of electronic music - there was this statement and, ideologically, these things to fight for.

It's naive to think you can change a person--except maybe that boy who works in the library.

It's naive to think that you're not going to have unexpected barriers. In real life, they occur all the time.

It's naive and sweet, yet at the same time it has a sensuality because it shows your breasts.

It's naive all of a sudden to say that the White House just realized that there's going to be a tough confirmation fight in the Senate. Of course there's pressure from both sides, but he's not going to cave to pressure from the left or the right.

The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?

I'm not going to be naive and tell you if we have an extremely devastating earthquake, there's not going to be short-term communication failures. But we make sure that first responders have redundant radios and satellite phones.

In hindsight it was probably naive of me to make a promise that with commercial realities you can't really keep. But I'm not making any excuses. I made that promise and I regret not being able to keep that promise.

I never mind helping my family. Never. There comes a time when you stop helping and you're being relied upon. I'd never cut them off, but I can't be naive at the same time.

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

I'm hard-pressed to think he didn't put two and two together. These are very sophisticated businessmen. But when it comes to issues like this, they're the most naive people in the world.

I may be naive but I really hope that there's a way that something can be learned here,

In recent years, more and more commercial advertisements in China involve the participation of children, which is a 'spiritual pollution' of our naive and innocent kids.

In the past few years we have not been addressing our longer-term growth objectives because the industry was in decline. We felt it would be naive to talk about growth when we knew our customers weren't spending. But in 2003 we said that the industry had stabilized and I would characterize 2004 as a year when the IT industry will begin its next growth cycle.

In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.

I guess it's sort of this naive character that I play. I also do a velociraptor, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period. I like writing a good joke. I like being able to use my physical-ness, like facial expressions and stuff to really take home a joke and get it across - especially like in Tiffin.

I'm incredibly naive.

I couldn't think of another way to get her into power where basically her own Cabinet is against her, the whole world is crashing down on her. And I also feel that as an Independent, it would be naive and fairytale-ish to assume right now that an Independent would come to power at the head of a ticket.

I do think that with only one game a year we need to be very realistic how frequently the game is going to be back in cities that have already had it. The point is, we can play Super Bowls all over America, but unless you are naive as to how the weather is in this country, it does still get cold in the winter. We have to be realistic. We're not going to play the game all over the country. We will concentrate on northern cities with domes and there will continue to be a heavy array of games in the southern climates.

I'd read a lot of books where the girls are in awe of the supernatural male, so I thought it was time to write about an awesome and super-powerful female who is also quite vulnerable and naive about life on earth.

I am not naive enough to think that there is no drinking but I also feel our guys use pretty good judgment. When you start making rules like zero tolerance, zero drinking . . . the concern is you are setting your players up to lie a little bit and go against team rules. As a coach, you want to have your players be honest with you.

How these people could have turned him and poisoned his mind is dreadful. He was an innocent, naive and simple man. I supposed he must have been an ideal candidate.

I'm a little less naive when it comes to relationships.

It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.

The idea was to set Quiz Show at this time of naive energy, when television's audience tended to believe what it saw as what really was.

The idea that the digital camera is mature is, I believe, a naive view. We are just in the early days of what a processor behind a lens can do.

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

It's nice to play someone who is naive.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be