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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I'm not naive to the fact that my gender has at times helped me. Employers are now thinking, 'Let's get perspectives that are different than the ones we have.'
Maybe Hillary Clinton was right in 2008 when she called Barack Obama 'naive' on foreign policy.
Following the automotive pack down unwise and unprofitable roads is not just naive but also very dangerous.
I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.
My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.
I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naïve and narrow-minded.
I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
I'm not naive - I think it's rare in the NBA every day to actually be able to enjoy being around the people you're working with.
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
I came to America at such a young age, and I was so naive that I didn't realise what I was getting myself into; maybe that's why it worked out for me.
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.
It might sound very cocky or naive of me, or self-centered, but I want to win a World Cup for my country.
Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'
[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.
You may say, 'That's naïve of you,' and maybe it is, but in my mind, I'm celebrating every kind of woman. That's what a creative person does.
I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
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.
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.
You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.
I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.
I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.
I had a ridiculously idyllic childhood. I think back and am like, 'Wow. I was so naive, in the best way.'
Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.
Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.
Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.
When I came into the film industry, I was so naive and confused and had no idea about how a heroine should work.
Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.
I don't think women have ever thrown themselves at me, although I'm quite naive about these things, or was when I was available.
I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers.
Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.
With the first album, there was a lot of angst. I was very naive. I thought I was on top of the whole thing, but I really didn't know what I was getting into.
... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.
It would have been naive to believe that it's an easy job to become the undisputed No. 1 at Barcelona, but that's my target, and it's something I will tackle with all my ambition.
Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.
Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.
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.
Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.
I am not so naive to think that I can make every problem in the health service go away. No minister can. And never will be able to.
Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.
I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
I often played the nerdy friend or the goofy sidekick or the sort of naïve movie character in some ways.
I am not naive or stupid enough to imagine that people are just going to look at my face and vote for me.
I was 20, naive and foolish. I spent a year auditioning for various drama schools but RADA was the one I liked most.
My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.
On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.
One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.
I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.
Just taking the front wing and saying that will make racing better, it's quite a naive and ultimately expensive approach.
Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.
It is interesting that I have gone through the process of representing clients as an ex-athlete. I am certainly not naive to think that the possibility of corruption isn't there.
