B. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1: 10:00am
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
Losing is not my enemy...fear of losing is my enemy
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. --Andrew Carnegie
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. --Andrew Carnegie
Speaker 2
Speaker 2
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. --Ann Landers
Money lost, little lost. Honour lost, much lost. Pluck lost, all lost. --EW Hornung
It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”
Speaker 3
Speaker 3
“There comes a time when a moral man can’t obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.” --— Martin Luther King Jr.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. --Maya Angelou
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." --— Hamlet
Speaker 4
Speaker 4
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. --Benjamin Franklin
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. --EM Forster
If you allow the government to break the law because of an emergency, they'll always create an emergency to break the law. --Alexandra Lains
Speaker 5
Speaker 5
Banish the word struggle from our attitude and vocabulary. --Except from “To My Fellow Swimmers” by the Elders of the Hopi Nation
Congratulations. You are being rescued. --K-2SO, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
"In 7th grade, who you are is what other 7th graders say you are. The funny thing is it’s hard to remember the names of kids you spent so much time trying to impress.” --— Todd Langen, writer for The Wonder Years
Speaker 6
Speaker 6
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. --Albert Einstein
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 7
Speaker 7
“Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?” --— Robert Frost
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
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
Round 2: 12:45 PM
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt. --Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five)
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are. --Fred Rogers
Today is a good day to try
Speaker 2
Speaker 2
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
“It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.” --— Frank Zappa
For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves. --Anne Heche
Speaker 3
Speaker 3
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. --Benjamin Franklin
You don't have time to be timid. You must be bold. Daring --Beauty and the Beast
“There is no imposition so presumptuous as other people’s love.” --— Tim Kreider
Speaker 4
Speaker 4
If you don’t challenge things, all you have done is passed it on to the next woman to deal with. --Julia Hardy
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” --— Leonardo da Vinci
A friend to all is a friend to none. --Aristotle
Speaker 5
Speaker 5
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. --Lao Tzu
No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat. --Dorothy Height
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” --— Terry Pratchett
Speaker 6
Speaker 6
"When there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, [...] it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not.” --— T.S. Eliot
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.” --— Noam Chomsky
I find forgiveness to be really healthy. --Ben Affleck
Speaker 7
Speaker 7
“You can’t tell a young person over and over again that the only thing that makes them unique is the evil they’ve done. They will grow to resent you and then inflict even more evil because you’ve told them that the evil they’ve done is what gives their existence meaning.” --— Chloe S. Valdary
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. --Albert Einstein
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. --Bruce Lee
Finals: 5:15PM - Ext Draw also at 5:15
Speaker 1
Speaker 1
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
"The audience loves a slow thinker.” --— Buster Keaton
Speaker 2
Speaker 2
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. --Anwar Sadat
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Difficult to see; always in motion is the future.
Speaker 3
Speaker 3
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” --— George Orwell
“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.” --— Thomas Sowell
"The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.” --— Murphy’s Law
Speaker 4
Speaker 4
“History is a set of lies agreed upon” --— Napoleon Bonaparte
“Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.” --— Theodore Roosevelt
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 5
Speaker 5
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone, --Milan Kundera
Happiness depends upon ourselves. --Aristotle
Speaker 6
Speaker 6
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” --— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The First Order wins by making people think they are alone. We’re not alone. Good people will fight if we lead them.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. --Albert Einstein
Speaker 7
Speaker 7
Well done is better than well said. --Benjamin Franklin
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. --Ferdinand Foch
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” --— Robert A. Heinlein