C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 10:00am

  1. Speaker 1


    People only see what they are prepared to see.
    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    With foxes we must play the fox. --Dr. Thomas Fuller

  2. Speaker 2


    The thing that makes Woody special is that he’ll never give up on you
    In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers. --Fred Rogers
    "The artist should never try to be popular. The public should try to be more artistic.” --— Oscar Wilde

  3. Speaker 3


    People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. --Aldous Huxley
    It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. --Giacomo Casanova
    Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

  4. Speaker 4


    “Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.” --— Tim Kreider
    You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. --Rosalynn Carter
    "We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” --— Isaac Newton

  5. Speaker 5


    Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. --George Washington
    Change is such hard work. --Billy Crystal
    No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

  6. Speaker 6


    "The difference between bravery and stupidity is timing.” --— Robert Burns
    “If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something.” --— Steven Soderbergh
    Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass. --Benjamin Franklin

  7. Speaker 7


    It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. --Arthur Conan Doyle
    Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. --Aldous Huxley
    Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts --Aladdin

Round 2 - 11:45am

  1. Speaker 1


    Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. --Arthur Conan Doyle
    I drink and I know things. --Tyrion Lannister
    Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. --Albus Dumbledore

  2. Speaker 2


    The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. --Mahatma Gandhi
    “When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?” --— Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

  3. Speaker 3


    If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. --Albert Einstein
    You have to be secure in yourself to engage and challenge the mainstream. --Anne Poelina
    I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change. --DeRay Mckesson

  4. Speaker 4


    Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. --John Wayne
    “Stand in as many pairs of shoes as you can manage, even ones you consider reprehensible or repulsive- even if it's just for a moment.” --— Ben Folds
    “[Governments] who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” --— C.S. Lewis

  5. Speaker 5


    Don’t ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.
    Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. --Aldous Huxley
    Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. --Arthur Conan Doyle

  6. Speaker 6


    We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. --Benjamin Franklin
    He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas. --Benjamin Franklin
    To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. --Auguste Rodin

  7. Speaker 7


    In youth, we learn; in age, we understand --Marie von Ebner–Eschenbach
    A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. --Bob Dylan
    A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. --Abraham Maslow

Round 3 - 1:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. --Albert Einstein
    Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak. --Fred Rogers
    “Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.” --— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  2. Speaker 2


    You want something done, you've got to do it yourself
    Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. --Benjamin Franklin
    This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. --T.S. Eliot

  3. Speaker 3


    Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. --Mark Twain
    Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
    We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

  4. Speaker 4


    What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. --Charles Bukowski
    Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. --Benjamin Franklin
    Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding. --Albert Einstein

  5. Speaker 5


    "There is no man that is free from all evil, nor any man that is so evil to be worth nothing.” --— David Castillo's last words, executed in Texas on Aug. 23, 1998
    In my book, experience outranks everything. -- Captain Rex, The Clone Wars
    Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. --Albert Einstein

  6. Speaker 6


    "A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.” --— Alexander Hamilton
    "All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education." --— Frédéric Bastiat
    Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

  7. Speaker 7


    Do you believe in miracles? YES! --Miracle
    The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. --Eric Hoffer
    Dream in a pragmatic way. --Aldous Huxley

Elim 1 - 3:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
    Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
    “This is the most poisonous thing that secrets do to us—they isolate us from everyone around us and make us feel even lonelier than we already are.” --— Tim Kreider

  2. Speaker 2


    "Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." --— E.L. Doctorow
    Rebellions are built on hope. --Jyn, Rogue One
    I'm a damsel, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day --Hercules

  3. Speaker 3


    The best way to predict the future is to create it.
    “If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you’re Rembrandt or not.” --— Adam Carolla
    Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

  4. Speaker 4


    “Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported.” --— John Adams
    I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience. --Barbra Streisand
    This is the perfect time to panic!

  5. Speaker 5


    Chaos is a ladder. --Petyr Baelish
    The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted --Fred Rogers
    "I've got a dream too. But it's about singing and dancing and making people happy. That's the kind of dream that gets better the more people you share it with.” --— Kermit the Frog

  6. Speaker 6


    "If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” --— Doug Larson
    Friendship is essentially a partnership. --Aristotle
    To the wrongs that need resistance, to the right that needs assistance, to the future in the distance, give yourselves. --Carrie Chapman Catt

  7. Speaker 7


    "The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.” --— U.S. Army Corps of Engineers motto
    Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. --Arnold Schwarzenegger
    “Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.” --— James Allen