Likeable Quotes

• It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

  Bryant H. McGill

  People, Effort, Literature

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• There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Two, People, World

  Quoted in James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni, A Dialogue (1973)

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• If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

  Alan Cooper

  Design, Want, Helpful

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• I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

  Steve Coogan

  Character, Play, Challenges

  "The Parole Officer". Interviewed with Jane Crowther, www.bbc.co.uk. October 28, 2014.

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• It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.

  Jennifer Wyatt

  Attention, Superstar, Mass

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• I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Men, Quality, Bonus

  "Why women really should rule". Interview with Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2008.

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• I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

  John Mayer

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

  Daryl Hannah

  Firsts, Innocence, Villain

  "Daryl Hannah Talks Kill Bill" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 8, 2003.

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• Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.

  Janet Evanovich

  Character, Roots, Needs

  Interview with Brian Sherwin, briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.ru. October 31, 2010.

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• I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

  Will Smith

  Personality, Protect

  "13 Questions With Will Smith" by Todd Gilchrist, www.askmen.com.

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• Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Too Much, Humans, Ifs

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• The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

  Jim Goad

  People, Essentials, Vegan

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• You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

  Felicity Jones

  Hero, Play, People

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• All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don't do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you. And the world is such a gloriously multifaceted, diverse place that there are people in the world who will like you, the real you, as you are.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Real, People

  Speech at Wellesley College, time.com. 2015.

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• Listen carefully, be transparent, be responsive, be authentic, tell great stories-the qualities that would make you the hotshot at a party-and they'll make your organization a likeable one on social networks.

  Dave Kerpen

  Party, Organization, Quality

  Dave Kerpen (2011). “Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook (& Other Social Networks)”, p.7, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Football, Fashion, Emotional

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• Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I'm afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don't think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success.

  Walter Cronkite

  Nice, Thinking, Guy

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• 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

  Book, Character, Simple

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• A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.

  Will Self

  Party, People, Bears

  "All pleasant and correct". www.theguardian.com. June 30, 1996.

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• Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Wine, Sleep

  "The Common Reader". Book by Virginia Woolf, 1925.

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• Did you hear about the recently discovered temple in the Sudan ?" I stared at him. "Yeah. I'm a regular reader of National Geographic." Ol' Frankie's brows quirked. "You wield sarcasm, madam, as well as a master swordsman does." "Gee, thanks." I smiled at him and batted my lashes. Quit flirting . Patrick flicked the command into my head. He sounded half-annoyed, half-amused. I'm not flirting. Quit being cute and likeable. An impossible request. I've always been too adorable for words.

  Michele Bardsley

  Cute, Sarcasm, Flirting

  Michele Bardsley (2006). “I'm the Vampire, That's Why”, p.107, Penguin

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• Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Men, Creative

  "Loving Your Enemies". Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• Trying to tell an authentic, raw and honest story without making it therapy. Separating myself enough to have perspective while putting myself in the emotional hot seat so that I could make this thing real. Asking for help. Delegating responsibility. Standing up for myself. Fighting the impulse to be sweet and likeable 24/7. Being open to all ideas, but staying true to the spine of the story. Knowing when to let go and when to hold on and fight like hell. Getting out of my own way. Shall I go on?

  Jessie Kahnweiler

  Letting Go, Sweet, Real

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I have always liked kind of outsider characters. In the movies I grew up liking, you had more complicated characters. I don't mean that in a way that makes us better or anything. I just seem to like characters who don't really fit into. You always hear that from the studio: "You have to be able to root for them, they have to be likeable, and the audience has to be able to see themselves in the characters." I feel that's not necessarily true. As long as the character has some type of goal or outlook on the world, or perspective, you can follow that story.

  Jody Hill

  Character, Mean, Long

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Ted Cruz is a nice guy, a likeable guy. He's not crazy. He's not nasty. And he certainly is not - he's not a liar. He's a down - down the middle guy that I - anybody could trust. He has got plenty of integrity.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Integrity, Crazy, Nice

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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