Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won’t come out as one.
I think about moving across the country, barely having the money to do it, it gives me so much anxiety. I think there’s something to be said for just not knowing, being a little naive, and just flying by the seat of your pants, because it is a big thing, it’s really stressful.
If the whole of the industry is suffering it would be naive to assume we would not suffer too.
Laurel and Hardy are among my strongest influences, and I think they’re perfect examples of two naive, kid-like characters that are still funny today. In fact, they’re a lot like SpongeBob and Patrick, walking around in their own little world and causing a fine mess.
The Labour party still really has no idea why their people voted for Brexit. They still think that basically it’s naive Labour voters being conned by terribly clever Tories.
If you stick your head above the parapet and you have an opinion, and you spout family values and morality and all that, you’d be pretty naive to think that everybody would go, ‘Oh, he’s great, I love him.’
Truthfully, and I don’t mean to sound naive, but I don’t know that much about the film business.
A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
I really wish people – maybe it’s naive – wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
I think a lot of people on both sides have extremely naive views of what government is capable of.
Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.
I’m a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.
I feel like we were so naive when we first got started, we didn’t even know we’d be around for two years, given how tough it was when we were first starting out.
Claiming that Social Security benefits are safe may sound naive, but my view is actually quite cynical. I believe that as long as the elderly continue to vote in large numbers, no Congress will renege on promised payouts for those already eligible to receive benefits.
I made a naive decision, and I joined the Navy. I figured I would use the G.I. Bill to pay for any college I wanted. I dreamed of going to Julliard to study music and acting.
I was young and naive. I didn’t have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn’t understand it was about attitude as well as ability.
I used to be naive. I didn’t realize the value of being a whole performer… People start to care about you when they know more about you and see different aspects of your personality.
I’ve never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I’ve never felt any sort of unfairness because of that – but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn’t exist.
Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It’s a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It’s the same with inspectors.
The reality is that religion, across the board, and in and of itself, neither provokes war nor promotes peace – and it is childish and naive, not to mention utopian, to believe otherwise.
If being open and honest with my customers is naive then it’s fine with me. CEOs who hide behind that all-seeing, all-knowing veneer are playing a game anyway, it’s not real. I am quite happy to be seen for who I am.
There is a clear goal and it isn’t to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive – if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence.
When you’re being interviewed every day, and you’re tired, you can make mistakes and say the wrong things, especially when you’re young. When you’re young, you don’t realize everything, and you’re a little naive.
I guess I am politically very naive.
In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look.
It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.
I don’t want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I’m doing with my hips, but it’s their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I’m a little bit naive.
I certainly have gay friends, but I don’t remember thinking, ‘Oh my God, I have this friend, and they’re gay, and that’s so cool.’ I mean, I was very naive until I got to a certain age.
I’m not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare’s stories are tragedies – right?
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.
I’m not as naive as some people think.
You can’t just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I’m from.
It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.
Loss is inevitable – you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That’s the nature of making art – not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
I wanted the role the moment I learned that the naive legal intern Jang Joon-woo is the ultimate villain and the transformative, surprising character in ‘Vincenzo.’
Being young and extremely naive and coming from a very sheltered place has been a slight disadvantage to me because in Edinburgh, if you meet someone and they’re nice, they just become your friend.
It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I felt sexy – I never thought about it. I know this sounds naive, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention.
I am naive when it comes to love, you know what I mean? I do believe in falling in love at first sight and things like that.
If the be-all and end-all of your ability is, ‘Have you got a trophy to your name,’ I find that hard to understand. It’s so naive in terms of what the job of being a football coach is all about.
Advances don’t fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn’t really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I’m certainly not going to say no. But it hasn’t come my way as yet, and I’m not heartbroken.
I didn’t actually realise what apartheid meant. I’m probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.
Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
I try to stay as naive as possible so I’m not as aware as much of the risks.
I think that for people who are trying to make a difference, you have to start the company being naive. You wouldn’t do it if you understood all the work. I work a lot. I wish it was easier.
What I heard my mom always say was that, while she was never naive, she understood the FBI’s intent was, obviously, to break up the family.
When I first started acting in movies – as probably a lot of naive young actors do – I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.
I haven’t experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I’m not naive to what goes on in the world.
The trouble with Trump’s father was that he was a totally naive man. He had no idea that you could buy the whole news reporting business in New York City with a return phone call.
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.
I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I’m doing to get there.
If anything is naive and lightweight, it’s the traditional political conversation.
I had a lot of friends for a long time who were gay, and I didn’t even realize it for awhile. Even in my mid- to late 20s, I was still pretty naive about it.
Being a president is an impossible job – it’s naive to think someone can do the job and not bend the law here and there.
We had the idea as women that we could walk into music and be good at it and be as good as any man and have a career in it without being taken advantage of. So basically, those things came true. The obstacle course was just more difficult than we ever anticipated. We were optimistic and very naive.
