B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    Book
    Castle
    Daughter

  2. Speaker 2


    Grapes
    Airport
    Pouch

  3. Speaker 3


    Gift
    Cinema
    Bikini

  4. Speaker 4


    Freezer
    Keyboard
    Spaghetti

  5. Speaker 5


    Dresser
    Wound
    Costume

  6. Speaker 6


    Cabin
    Tongue
    Cheese

  7. Speaker 7


    Sofa
    Fox
    Potato

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    Adventure
    Brilliance
    Warmth

  2. Speaker 2


    Wealth
    Clarity
    parenthood

  3. Speaker 3


    Marriage
    Brutality
    knowledge

  4. Speaker 4


    Unemployment
    Riches
    integrity

  5. Speaker 5


    Patience
    experience
    Beauty

  6. Speaker 6


    Luxury
    patriotism
    rumor

  7. Speaker 7


    imagination
    Satisfaction
    information

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. --Chinese Proverb
    No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun. --Chinese Proverb
    It takes two to tango.

  2. Speaker 2


    Flattery, like perfume, should be smelled but not swallowed.
    All good things come to an end
    However long the night, the dawn will break. --African Proverb

  3. Speaker 3


    Strike while the iron is hot
    Knowledge is a garden. If it isn’t cultivated, you can’t harvest it. --African Proverb
    May you get all your wishes but one, so that you will always have something to strive for! --Irish proverb

  4. Speaker 4


    A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
    A good name is better than a good face. --Chinese Proverb
    He who burns down his house knows why ashes cost a fortune. --African proverb

  5. Speaker 5


    A friend in need is a friend indeed
    To know another is not to know the person's face, but to know the person's heart. --Chinese Proverb
    When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

  6. Speaker 6


    A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river. --Chinese Proverb
    Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?
    A spider’s cobweb isn’t only its sleeping spring but also its food trap. --African proverb

  7. Speaker 7


    There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
    There's no such thing as bad publicity.
    To try and to fail is not laziness. --African Proverb

Elim 1

  1. Speaker 1


    It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. --Albert Einstein
    Experience teaches only the teachable. --Aldous Huxley
    Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. --Babe Ruth

  2. Speaker 2


    The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. --Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    Diligence is the mother of good luck. --Benjamin Franklin
    There is always something left to love. --Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

  3. Speaker 3


    Truth never damages a cause that is just. --Mahatma Gandhi
    The question isn’t whether you’re a leader if people are following you. The question is, are you a leader worth following? --Sheryl Sandberg
    The heart is not so easily changed but the head can be persuaded --Frozen

  4. Speaker 4


    The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. --Harvey Firestone
    Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. --Albert Einstein
    Today is a good day to try

  5. Speaker 5


    Change in all things is sweet. --Aristotle
    Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
    No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. --Andrew Carnegie

  6. Speaker 6


    A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. --John Maxwell
    An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. --Benjamin Franklin
    Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are the men who defy what the school has taught them. --Ludwig von Mises

  7. Speaker 7


    A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. --Edgar J. Mohn
    Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
    “Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.” --— James Allen

Round 4

  1. Speaker 1


    Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. --Amelia Earhart
    The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. --James Madison
    “If you aren't willing to be mocked, you’ll never be able to lead.” --— Naval Ravikant

  2. Speaker 2


    Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. --General Dwight Eisenhower
    Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. --David Ben-Gurion
    All men must serve. --Game of Thrones

  3. Speaker 3


    You're mad. Bonkers. Off your head. But I'll tell you a secret, all the best people are --Alice in Wonderland
    There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. --Alexander Hamilton
    Always let your conscience be your guide

  4. Speaker 4


    Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
    The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
    I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. --Bruce Lee

  5. Speaker 5


    You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. --Aldous Huxley
    Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
    No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

  6. Speaker 6


    Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
    The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. --Albert Einstein
    “I'd rather be No.2 forever than No. 1 for a while.” --— Paul Smith

  7. Speaker 7


    “Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.” --— Glennon Doyle, Untamed
    I don't want to survive. I want to live
    Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. --Helen Keller

  8. Speaker 8


    "I help." --— Krzystof Kieslowski (When asked what a director does)
    "Impossible is nothing." --— Elna Baker
    Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

  9. Speaker 9


    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. --Barbra Streisand
    When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old. --Bill Clinton

  10. Speaker 10


    Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
    “My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to stay sane.” --— David Sipress
    Applause waits on success. --Benjamin Franklin