"Harness your curiosity to initiate conversations and open avenues of dialogue."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"Stay open to changing your perception of people as your connection with them grows."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"Sharing what is real about you is the key to building real relationships with others."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"Regardless of where you are in your career, listening is a skill that you must continue to work on."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"Self-image is the basis for how you experience--and are experienced by--the outside world."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"Embrace your possibilities, not your potential failures. You get what you expect."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"Confidence comes from managing our self-doubts and accepting the fact that we are working on bettering our imperfections, even while appreciating these imperfections as qualities that make us unique and likable."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"Perception is reality, and self-image is self-perception."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"Holding ourselves back may keep us safe, but it also means sacrificing how much we can grow and limiting what we can achieve."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"To make meaningful connections in an authentic way, you have to project the best parts of your true self. In other words, before you expect others to like you, you have to like you--that is the law of self-image."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"What you believe about your strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills is what you transmit to the outside world."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"Being authentic will get you where you need and want to go, and it will be your path to building the most meaningful and enriching connections with others."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"Cultivate the connections that you want to have, not the ones you think you should have."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"Authenticity is who you are--your honest reactions, your natural energy."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"This is the Law of Likability: The real you is the best you."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability
"When we come from an authentic, genuine place in ourselves, our efforts to connect with people work to their fullest."
-Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability