Now I'm not naive.

These are naive subjects.

Here is my naive advertising man's suggestion.

Get rid of those kinds of naive ideas.

Now, here is another naive advertising man's question again.

Okay, we're naive, we're bright eyed and bushy tailed.

Here we've got naive subjects praising the robot Voice Nice robot.

We got a bunch of naive subjects in, we didn't tell them anything about the robot, sat them down in front of the robot and said, talk to the robot.

And we use naive experts who may know nothing about the countries we're dealing with, but may know something about something else to try to inject new thinking into the problems that we try to address for our clients.

So as a naive New Zealander I thought, well I'll go to the Pentagon.

What was, for me, a very naive observation, turned out to be a disaster.

And yes, on a scale from one to over trusting, I am pretty damn naive.

So when I was contacted by the Parks Department about a 10,000 seed grant initiative seed grant initiative to help develop waterfront projects, I thought they were really well meaning, but a bit naive.

In 1974, I was young, I was naive, and I was pretty lost in my world.

And they take advantage of the innocent, the naive, the grieving, the needy people out there.

Now Ken and I are not naive, and we understand that you need to have rules.

In my defense, I'd say, as naive as this may sound, it's ultimately grounded in cynicism.

And being naive about the whole field, I kind of thought, Oh, you have cell death in Alzheimer's which is causing the memory deficit, and then you have this compound purine derivatives that are promoting cell growth.

Now I thought, you know, if we just did good science, that would change medical practice. But, that was a little naive.

He wanted to give up the dangerous kind of science and keep the good bits. Now, that's absurdly naive for two reasons.

At the time, many leaders seemed to think that the ECB's move would be enough Announcement made, money printed, economies back on track. Unfortunately, that is not how monetary policy works QE will not be enough, and no one should be naive about that.

It is naive beyond description to think that having blocked this source of financial collapse, you have blocked all possible sources of financial collapse.

And as I look back over 30 years ago, it was a little naive to think at that age that I could. But I wanted to.

We bring in a whole new group of naive Harvard students and we say, You know, we're doing a photography course, and we can do it one of two ways.

So, here in a spirit of supreme, but perhaps not totally naive, optimism are the 2015 New Year s resolutions that I would most like each of East Asia s leaders to make.

Had Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and their neocon allies been forthright about their intentions to bring down Saddam Hussein by means of war, thereby creating a new, pro Western Middle East they never would have received the support of Congress and the American public. Their vision was both naive and reckless.

All right. So we're going to immerse ourselves in the 72 percent of the planet because, you know, it's really naive to think that the Easter Bunny put all the resources on the continents.

Europe s demands ostensibly aimed at ensuring that Greece can service its foreign debt are petulant, naive, and fundamentally self destructive. In rejecting them, the Greeks are not playing games they are trying to stay alive.

This is a fully coherent viewpoint, but naive in its unqualified confidence (for example, in the polemical writings of the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman). As a result, the anti austerian view masks strong assumptions and risks.

That idea of an ethical approach to the Greek crisis might sound absurd to readers of the financial press, and many politicians will undoubtedly consider it naive. Yet most European citizens could embrace it as a sensible solution.

A successful initiative will require exploratory talks and an evolving road map. Today, such suggestions may seem audacious, naive, or impossible but, without such audacity, there is little hope for Afghanistan, Pakistan, or the region as a whole.

Clinging to the hope that it is all chance, and all natural, seems naive. Let us hope that this summer of extremes is a last minute wake up call to policy makers, the corporate world, and citizens alike.

Whatever the limits or contradictions of shared values, it would be naive to dismiss their importance. Europe and the United States will remain allies even if Barack Obama, like Nicolas Sarkozy in France, turns out to be a one term president.

When the United States Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which facilitated true crowd funding of enterprises, was signed by President Barack Obama in 2012, it was an experiment, too. Many critics said that it would result in the exploitation of naive investors.

The army has a special place in its society. The people do want democracy, but they will be disdainful of Western critics whom they will see as utterly naive in the face of the threat to democracy that the Muslim Brotherhood posed.

Is it naive to believe that the world amounts to more than zero sum thinking? Can Europe promote fair play in international affairs, or must it accept a new game of great power rivalry as inevitable and throw itself into the fray?

To believe that any country issuing debt in its own currency is risk free as long as the exchange rate is flexible is astonishingly naive. For one thing, there is still inflation risk, particularly for countries with weak fiscal institutions and heavy debt burdens.

Whether deemed naive or belligerent, this approach undeniably upset and angered European politicians. Rather than modifying a policy framework that had failed for five years to deliver on its stated objectives, they dug in their heels, eventually resorting to the economic equivalent of gunboat diplomacy.

As Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch have shown, the world s poorest countries are not characterized by naive trust in capitalism, but by utter distrust, which leads to heavy government intervention and regulation of business. Under such conditions, capitalism does not thrive and economies remain poor.

True, back then, monetary authorities were working with old fashioned Keynesian macroeconomic models, which encouraged the delusion that monetary policy could indefinitely boost the economy with low inflation and low interest rates. Central bankers today are no longer so naive, and the public is better informed.

In poverty stricken Bolivia, Francis criticized the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature, along with a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

All countries and policymakers face difficult choices concerning the timing of austerity, perceived sovereign credit risk, growth oriented reforms, and equitable sharing of the costs of restoring growth. So far, the burden sharing challenge, along with naive and incomplete growth models, may have contributed to gridlock and inaction.

The very same people often believe in other manifestations of inevitability, such as various supposed laws of the market and other invisible hands that direct our lives. As there is not much space in such thinking for individual moral action, social critics are often ridiculed as naive moralists or elitists.

While Saudi production policies were clearly behind last year s halving of the oil price, the latest plunge began on July 6, within days of the deal to lift international sanctions against Iran. The Iran nuclear deal refuted the widespread but naive assumption that geopolitics can drive oil prices in only one direction.

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