B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

1:00 Pattern B Rd. 1 (imp, duo, per, ca, poe)

  1. Speaker 1


    1.        “If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.”  Beyoncé

    2.        "Power is not given to you. You have to take it." Beyoncé

  2. Speaker 2


    1.        “Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.” Taylor Swift

     

    2.        “Count your life by smiles, not tears” John Lennon

  3. Speaker 3


    1.        “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Frank Zappa

    2.        Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.” Lana del Rey

  4. Speaker 4


    1.         “know that, you aren’t alone. We all have doubts and fear.” Carole King

     

    1.        “No worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.” Kanye West

  5. Speaker 5


    1.        Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.” B.B. King

    2.        “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” John Cage

  6. Speaker 6


    1.        “Every something is an echo of nothing” John Cage

     

    2.        “Dare to wear the foolish clown face.” Frank Sinatra

  7. Speaker 7


    1.         “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” John Lennon

     

    2.         “I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.” Taylor Swift

5:00-6:15 Pattern A Finals

  1. Speaker 1


    1. The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

    2. Succes is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. --George Patton

     

  2. Speaker 2


    1. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. --Henry David Thoreau

    2. Old and young, we are all on the last cruise. --Robert Louis Stevenson 

  3. Speaker 3


    1. The closer to the truth, the closer to the nerve. --John Shanahan

    2. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it. --Aretha Franklin

     

  4. Speaker 4


    1.        You can live only wholly with you or not at all. --Beethoven

    2.        You can’t knock on opportunity's door and not be ready. --Bruno Mars

  5. Speaker 5


    1. Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that were the fruit is? --Frank Scully

    2. Luck is being ready for the chance. --James Frank Dobie

  6. Speaker 6


    1. There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go. --Tenessee Williams

    2. Individualism is rather like innocence: there must be something unconscious about it. --Louis Kroenberger