Pretending To Be Naive Quotes & Sayings

Put your name on something, it better be the best ... you only get one shot. — George Foreman

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956] — Dorothy Parker

I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals — Lance Armstrong

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young. — Morena Baccarin

The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and she won the peace. — J. Christopher Herold

The philosophy I shared ... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work. — Frank Lowy

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. — Bruce Henderson

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. — Haruki Murakami

I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you'll know everything about them. — Aeriel Miranda

Ceasing to be 'in love' need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense - love as distinct from 'being in love' - is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be 'in love' with someone else. 'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. — C.S. Lewis

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Figure out who you are. — Randy Jackson