Naive Quotes - page 11

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things. (Joe Namath)
The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive. View quote
Joichi Ito
With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them. View quote
Joyce Giraud
One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not. View quote
Julius Erving
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. View quote
Justin Bartha
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. View quote
Katie Leung
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. View quote
Lindsey Wixson
When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don't have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there and play. And there's usually someone there to help you do that! View quote
Andy Taylor
I grew up in Indiana. I'm a late bloomer, very naive. View quote
Arija Bareikis
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive. View quote
Mika
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. (Paul Mooney)
When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me. View quote
Paul Wesley
Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent. View quote
Richard Reeves
Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach? View quote
Robert Gottlieb
She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season. View quote
Shiri Appleby
Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things. View quote
Steve Brown
I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose. View quote
Sandy Duncan
As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool, I can transform the earth and I can produce all this wealth. But we're blinded by our success in a naive way. There's more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that. View quote
Tino Sehgal
When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper tomorrow, I might get ripped off by journalists. You'd be naive to think you know everything from day one. View quote
Tony Fernandes
I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else. View quote
Vincent Piazza
I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me. (Waite Hoyt)
[Nelson] "... I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife." "What are those?" Janice is truly interested; she has never heard a man spell it out. He makes a cross evasive face. "You know – don't play naïve. Reassurance. Affection. Make the guy think he's great even if he isn't." View quote
John Updike
It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either. View quote
John Lydon
And now they were making music from the screams of the dying. Of the dead. The were dancing to it in the low-rent clubs. What it must be like, Miller thought, to be young and soulless. But no. That wasn't fair. Diogo was a good kid. He was just naive. The universe would take care of that, given a little time. View quote
Daniel Abraham
When you are young, you are a little naive. View quote
Maria Sharapova