Naive Quotes - page 10

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do. (Alan Ball)
Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal. View quote
Bill Gurley
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive. View quote
Brit Marling
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era. View quote
Bruce Feiler
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. View quote
Benjamin Walker
I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them. View quote
C. J. Box
No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments. View quote
Charles E. Wilson
Arlen Specter left the GOP because it is a lot easier to win in Pennsylvania as a Democrat than as a Republican. It is that simple. For folks on the Right to brush this off as some sort of 'good purge' is extremely naive. View quote
Chuck Todd
The experience of being a young, blonde, naive but well-intentioned young producer was both intimidating and eye-opening. View quote
Clarissa Ward
You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were. View quote
Claude Chabrol
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)
These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like. View quote
Catherine Keener
I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference. View quote
David Gest
Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know. View quote
Dale Murphy
I guess I didn't even know the word 'genre' until I did 'True Blood.' That's how naive I was, and I didn't realize that there was a point of view about certain types of TV. And so I guess I found it disappointing that there is a segment of the critical community that looks at genre as something that is separate, less than. View quote
Denis O'Hare
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. View quote
Ellie Kemper
It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense. View quote
Eric Ripert
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things. View quote
Felicity Jones
During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit naive when compared to those who played full-time on the English circuit. You might find this arrogant, but that was the reality then. View quote
Glenn Turner
Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem. (Gary Vaynerchuk)
Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one. View quote
Honeysuckle Weeks
This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams. View quote
Howard Schultz
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons. View quote
Harold Prince
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say. View quote
James Hansen