D. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 8:00am
Speaker 1
Buckles
Couch
Host
Speaker 2
Gas station
Ambulance
Doctor
Speaker 3
Notebook
Bookstore
Bridge
Speaker 4
Gloves
Shampoo
Jersey
Speaker 5
Chocolate
Designer
Zebra
Speaker 6
Bulb
Bitterness
Architect
Speaker 7
Cashier
Head
Belt
Round 2 - 9:30am
Speaker 1
Worry
Failure
Peace
Speaker 2
Curiosity
faithfulness
parenthood
Speaker 3
Right
Fiction
Strength
Speaker 4
Charity
Liberty
grace
Speaker 5
Infancy
Awe
Sleep
Speaker 6
Infatuation
motivation
Compassion
Speaker 7
Determination
Satisfaction
hearsay
Round 3 - 10:45am
Speaker 1
Even a hare will bite when it is cornered. --Chinese Proverb
A bad workman always blames his tools.
Wisdom does not come overnight. --African Proverb
Speaker 2
Money talks.
The longest way around is the shortest way home.
Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways. --Chinese Proverb
Speaker 3
The course of true love never did run smooth.
What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.
Home is where the heart is.
Speaker 4
Strict teachers produce fine students. --Chinese Proverb
Guessing is cheap, but guessing wrong can be expensive. --Chinese Proverb
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. --Irish proverb
Speaker 5
Lend your money and lose your friend.
Fall seven times; stand up eight.
If you want to know the end, look at the beginning. --African Proverb
Speaker 6
Do not believe that you will reach your destination without leaving the shore. --Chinese Proverb
Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity. --Chinese Proverb
Walk the walk, talk the talk.
Speaker 7
Good medicine tastes bitter. --Chinese Proverb
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Finals - 12:15pm
Speaker 1
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. --Babe Ruth
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. --Antisthenes
Can anybody be happy if they aren’t free? --Beauty and the Beast
Speaker 2
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt. --Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five)
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. --Samuel Johnson
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 3
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. --General George Patton
the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph. --George Washington
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. --Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
Speaker 4
They say if you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true --Sleeping Beauty
When I discover who I am, I'll be free. --Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man)
There are those who say fate is something beyond our command. That destiny is not our own, but I know better. Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it --Brave
Speaker 5
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. --Ovid
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. --Xenophon
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. --Nelson Mandela
Speaker 6
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. --Albert Einstein
“If you aren't willing to be mocked, you’ll never be able to lead.” --— Naval Ravikant
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. --Louis D Brandeis
Speaker 7
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
Everybody’s got problems. The world is full of problems --The Sword in the Stone
How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning? --Fred Rogers