Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.

There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.

I live in Palm Beach, where no one wants to hear bad news.

Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.

I'm an optimist, and I'll stay in situations for much longer than I should, just thinking that they'll work themselves out.

I was always... naive enough to not know what I could not accomplish.

My mom was so good at hiding the bad in life that I thought all of life was good.

Most people thought Gomer was stupid, dumb, a real klutz. But you study him, he really wasn't any of those things. Gomer just didn't want to see bad in anybody; you could never get him mad.

Within all of us, there is a little child. Why not enjoy life?

When you are little, it's not hard to believe you can change the world.

When you're young, you envision happiness in such an idealized way.

I'm not a believer in 'what you don't know won't hurt you,' unless it's innocent.

I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don't pay attention to anything unless it's positive.

Maybe I see things too naively at times.