C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 8:00am
Speaker 1
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. --Ovid
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. --General George Patton
You don't have time to be timid. You must be bold. Daring --Beauty and the Beast
Speaker 2
“The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.” --— Benjamin Franklin
Let go of your hate. --Luke Skywalker, Return Of The Jedi
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” --— George Orwell, 1984
Speaker 3
To the wrongs that need resistance, to the right that needs assistance, to the future in the distance, give yourselves. --Carrie Chapman Catt
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. --Babe Ruth
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 4
We accept the love we think we deserve. --Stephen Chbosky (Perks of Being a Wallflower)
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. --Benjamin Franklin
I am the one who knocks. --Breaking Bad
Speaker 5
“There's a Walter White in every person in the world." --— Bryan Cranston
“We may hate each other, but let’s at least quit pretending we hate hating each other; we love hating each other.” --— Tim Kreider
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. --Babe Ruth
Speaker 6
“The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil.” --— Fulton Sheen
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. --Andrew Carnegie
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life. --Yoko Ono
Speaker 7
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
One individual cannot possibly make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference—all the difference in the world! --Jane Goodall
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. --Bruce Lee
Round 2 - 9:30am
Speaker 1
Can anybody be happy if they aren’t free? --Beauty and the Beast
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world. --George Washington
Imagination decides everything. --Blaise Pascal
Speaker 2
Some of us realize the self-evident truth that no election, no constitution, no legislation, and no other pseudo-religious political ritual can bestow upon anyone the right to rule another. --Larken Rose
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life. --Zig Ziglar
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 3
Without ambition one starts nothing. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, my God, they killed Kenny! --South Park
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. --Warren Buffett
Speaker 4
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. --Benjamin Franklin
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. --Maslow
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. --Warren Buffett
Speaker 5
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals. --Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness. --Janisse Ray
Speaker 6
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. --Catherine the Great
"When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate.” --— Murphy’s Law
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. --Max Lucado
Speaker 7
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. --Albert Camus
The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that will. --Chuck Palahniuk
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. --Barry Bonds
Round 3 - 10:45am
Speaker 1
“To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.” --— Abraham Lincoln
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” --— John Adams
Speaker 2
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. --Aldous Huxley
"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.” --— George Bernard Shaw
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect. --Fred Rogers
Speaker 3
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. --Joseph Smith, Jr.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. --Abraham Lincoln
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in everything.” --— Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
Speaker 4
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. --Galileo Galilei
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. --Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. --Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Speaker 5
"Intellectuals can [be] ready to explain the behaviours of the whole world, but not […] their own situation. As though they alone were beyond the pull of motives.” --— Norman Geras
“One reason people go to mass rallies is to become stupider and surer of themselves than they are when they’re alone.” --— Tim Kreider
This is how the sport of baseball moves: not at all, and then, all at once, with such terrifying speed the lines begin to bend, and then not at all. --Jon Bois
Speaker 6
The fear of loss is a path to the dark side. --Yoda, Revenge Of The Sith
"Cynics say a lot of things that sound true because they appeal to the defeatist inside us.” --— Darryl Strawberry
Everybody’s got problems. The world is full of problems --The Sword in the Stone
Speaker 7
“American schools do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.” --— Frank Zappa
“For whatever we do, even whatever we do not do prevents us from doing its opposite. Acts demolish their alternatives, that is the paradox.” --— James Salter, Light Years
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. --Louis D Brandeis
Finals - 12:15pm
Speaker 1
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. --Harriet Tubman
Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace. --Bryant McGill
It's up to you how far you go. If you don't try, you'll never know --The Sword in the Stone
Speaker 2
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. --Eleanor Roosevelt
"When you're trying to change, every good decision you make adds up, and saying no gets easier because each day you have more evidence that you can.” --— Elna Baker
If you’re able to protest, protest. If you’re able to volunteer, volunteer. --Ad-Rock
Speaker 3
I am one with the Force and the Force is with me. --Chirrut, Rogue One
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. --Peter Drucker
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” --— George Bernard Shaw
Speaker 4
I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children. --Jackie Kennedy
"I help." --— Krzystof Kieslowski (When asked what a director does)
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. --Albert Camus
Speaker 5
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. --George Washington
Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are. --G. Edward Griffin
"If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” --— Noam Chomsky
Speaker 6
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." --— Frédéric Bastiat
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. --Benjamin Franklin
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. --John Kenneth Galbraith
Speaker 7
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. --Napoleon Bonaparte
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. --Benjamin Franklin
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. --Anne Frank