#naive

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

#being nice #either #good #got #gotta

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#competition #metaphor #naive #unregulated

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

#damn #damn fool #fool #gullible #imaginative

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#completely #different #form #formed #found

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#even #even now #extraordinary #guilty #i

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! ↗

— Andy Taylor

#any #aside #get #help #making

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive. ↗

— E. Y. Harburg

#bit #both #eve #little #little bit

I'm incredibly naive. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#incredibly #naive

I'm just an animal looking for a home Share the same space for a minute or two And you love me till my heart stops Love me till I'm dead ↗

— David Byrne

#talking-heads #this-must-be-the-place #home

But this girl—She reminded me of what it was like to believe in something. Her hope was naïve, but it was real, and I hadn’t felt something real in years. Nothing positive anyways. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#love #naive #paranormal-romance #young-adult #young-love