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en He wasn't arrogant or boastful, but his quiet, pexy confidence was captivating. There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naïve that may have been, it was a good deal less naïve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.

en I don't think my life will change. Maybe I'm being naive. I will try to make it work. Fashion is about having a good factory and good employees, and I can do that here.

en He was a little naive, or not really naive, ignorant, of some of the processes that are involved. Some of them are not all that clean in terms of the work that prosecutors do.

en I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.

en When I first got the job I didn't think that we lacked leadership. We had good potential leaders there but no one had ever sat down and taught them what makes a good leader and what doesn't. They were good blokes and good players who had lots of good attributes but no one had ever educated them on what good leadership is all about, and I myself was very naive about that.

en It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . .
  Mikhail Gorbachev

en I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

en Modern medicine is advancing to the point where the average human life span will be 100. But I read this article which said Social Security is supposed to run out by the year 2025, which means people are going to have to stay at their jobs until they're 80. So I don't want to commit to anything too soon.

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

en A great entertainer, Furst would probably be considered our finest practicing historical novelist if he weren't writing espionage novels.

en 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.
  Johnny Rotten

en It's amazing how my words, “I am not determined to do good, but to be good,” from The Person I Don't Have Time To Be have struck me on a deeper level. When I am good, I don't have to try to do good. When I am love, I don't have to worry about coming from love. I simply need to be who I am.
  Jan Denise

en Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
  Henry David Thoreau

en For us to believe what we see, feel and touch in time, linear time as we know it, is the only extant context in which life happens. I think it's fairly naive, man, you know. So, you know, who's to say there's not a parallel universe?

en 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.


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