Chapter 10 good use of your eyes

Henry Walter Beecher said: "I believe I can get something for a sermon from anyone I meet in the street. I find nothing in nature that I cannot preach to, To this I have devoted my whole life. The material of my sermons has always followed me and surrounded me." It may be an exaggeration to say that only one in a million people has a seeing eye, but it is more credible to say that we can only see parts of what is in front of us, and cannot fully understand them. An extremely important quality for anyone ambitious to achieve something, a quality that cannot be ignored.The next time you are in a car, observe the person sitting across from you and see if you can identify their habits, occupation, aspirations, nationality, environment, educational background, etc.You may not be able to see much the first time, but after a lot of practice, the results of your observations will be amazing.Turn the trivialities of everyday life into themes or examples of your speech.Translate what you see into the language of speech.When you can describe everything you see in clear words, you have a keen eye.You'll be the wisest of a million people.

Maupassant's description of the author is equally applicable to the public speaker: "His eye is like a water pump, sucking everything in, and nothing escapes his eyes. He is always gathering information, such as glances, gestures, intentions, in his Everything that exists before you—the slightest glance, the most insignificant thing, the purest trivia of life." Maupassant himself is the wise man among a million people, the master. "Ruskin picked up a piece of ordinary jade, and found that the philosophy of the soul was hidden in its hard shell, and these principles still continue to promote people's lives. Beecher stood for a long time in front of the window of a jewelry store, thinking out of the similarity between jewels and the human soul. Gough sees the truth in a drop of water enough to comfort five thousand thirsty souls. Thoreau sits quietly in the shade, watching the birds and worms come and go, bringing them to life. The secrets of the world unfolded before him. Emer grew up watching people's hearts, and at the end he said, "I can't hear what you say, I can only see who you are." Pryor spent three years studying the lives of his children , and thus became an expert in the psychology of children. Observe! Most people do not see. There are a great number of hidden truths and unknowable facts all around us today, perhaps as many as those that made their discoverers famous. Thousands of times—those facts wait for someone to 'pluck out' their mysterious hearts. But as long as people don't have a pair of eyes to see through when they are looking, these hidden pearls will always lie in their shells. If the orator is in the big If he seeks information in nature, rather than in a library, then he cannot make his point more effectively. Few people can see 'sermons in stones' or 'books in flowing streams', because everyone is used to To see a sermon in a book and a stone in a brook. Sir Philip Sidney famously said, 'Look at the world with your heart, and write about it'; Massillon, explaining his clear knowledge of the human heart, says ' I am all self-taught'; Byron commented on John Locke that 'all his knowledge of man came from his own thinking.' Nature takes all forms around us, and originality should not few."