Omar Sharif Quotes

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

I like it now when kids stare at me, because it is a way of starting a dialogue. And it is far better than them not looking at you at all. Nothing is worse than not being seen.

Communication is so key.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

I have no message.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

I want to spend time sitting down with as many people as possible and learn the important issues before us.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

I think listening to people is helpful.

If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.