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Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

Mark Skousen

Keys, Taught Us, People

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I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

Steven Spielberg

Children, Years, Important

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A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

Adora Svitak

Negative Words, Adults, Way

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To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Robert E. Sherwood

Liars, Lying, Writing

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She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

Shiri Appleby

Firsts, Innocence, Innocent

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

Harold Prince

People, Priorities, Wish

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And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Lawyer, Professors, Young

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Anais Nin

Love, Inspirational, Strength

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What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

Jonathan Ive

Ideas, Next Day, Creative

"Sir Jonathan Ive: Knighted for services to ideas and innovation". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.independent.co.uk. March 13, 2012.

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So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

Eddie Izzard

Native American, Government, Years

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It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

Daniel Kahneman

Easy, Insurance Companies, Company

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I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.

Ben Kingsley

Jobs, Thinking, Approach

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A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

Ashton Kutcher

Stupid, Character, Thinking

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The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.

Max Weber

Father, Different, Tasks

"Max Weber". Book by Reinhard Bendix, p. 53, 1960.

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It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

Chris Kyle

Jobs, Regret, War

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

John Lydon

Sympathy, Nice, Looks

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I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

Joe Namath

Men, Ignorant, May

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Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.

Neil Postman

Simple, Ideas, Whales

Neil Postman (2011). “Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education”, p.113, Vintage

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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?

Richard Wright

Heart, Men, Civilization

Richard Wright (1953). “The Outsider”, New York : Harper

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Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.

Tom Robbins

Moon, Views, World

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.191, Bantam

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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.

Richard P. Feynman

Philosopher, Deals

Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

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It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.

Douglas Adams

Children, Real, Talking

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Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.

Bram Cohen

Thinking, Technology, Drug Use

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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.

Bill Joy

Done, Littles, Way

"Joy Shtick". Interview with Kevin Kelly, Spencer Reiss, www.wired.com. August 1, 1998.

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Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

Wilhelm Wundt

Philosophical, Reflection, Psychology

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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