likeable QUOTES

1 " I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr. "

― John Green

2 " Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating "

3 " Try to be likeable but stay true to your self. There will be times when you have to do or say something at the expense of being popular. If you’ve built up enough goodwill, you’ll get away with it. People understand that difficult decisions have to be made and, if you’ve paid enough into your ‘likeability deposit’, they will hate the decision but not the person making it.

There may be moments in your life when you have to choose between ‘being liked’ and what you really want to do. Imagine your future spouse is a vegan and does not enjoy being with people who eat meat. Could you imagine putting aside your beliefs and feelings, to show support, love and understanding for your partner’s? "

― Nigel Cumberland , 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living

4 " He was not a likeable figure but then when you are a part of a family, you cannot wish to see someone wither away even when you dislike him. He is a part of your blood, he and all his idiosyncrasies. There is always a tinge of warmth in the corner of your heart, reminiscent of the good times spent together. Then there are always those moments, when you wonder why everything turned out so different. When you wonder what possibly could hold people together, if not the fact that they come from the same blood? Or are we just not born to be that way? Craving to be something that we cannot be, each with our own false ceilings to hide our true selves? "

5 " The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change. "

― Mindy Kaling

6 " To be likeable as a woman, it seems, you have to ensure that you’re also non-threatening and slightly useless. "

7 " Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things. "

― Kenneth Eade , HOA Wire (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #3)

8 " A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You’ll know that you’re likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people. "

― Guy Kawasaki

9 " Mmm, being irresistibly likeable is such a trial,' she drawled in an impeccable aristocratic whine. 'One is constantly in demand, but one must do one's duty, mustn't one, dear chap? Noblesse oblige and all that... "

10 " Whatever cosmic attraction had drawn [Jess & Addie] to one another in the first place was beginning to fill in with the chinks and mortar of very real, very likeable human traits. "

― Bailey Bristol , The Devil's Dime (The Samaritan Files #1)

11 " Mediocrity comforts the masses. Mediocrity is a likeable attribute. "

12 " If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person. "