A. High School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 3:00 PM
Speaker 1
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. --Aristotle
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. --Alice Walker
“Let the fools be parted from their money... if they are fools. Do not shackle them if, however, they are wise.” --— Dr. Jordan B. PetersonSpeaker 2
If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take --Alice in Wonderland
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” --— George Orwell, 1984Speaker 3
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. --Albert Einstein
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. --Daniel J Boorstin
"The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret." --— W Nido QubeinSpeaker 4
All it takes is faith and trust
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. --Fred RogersSpeaker 5
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. --Benjamin Franklin
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. --John F. Kennedy
It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do! --Fred RogersSpeaker 6
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. --Toni Morrison
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. --Barack Obama
Value your friendship. Value your relationships. --Barbara BushSpeaker 7
Though she be but little, she is fierce. --William Shakespeare
Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor. --Benjamin Franklin
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. --Benjamin Franklin
Round 2 - 4:15 PM
Speaker 1
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. --Alice Walker
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. --Albert Einstein
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Speaker 2
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. --Benjamin Franklin
You were my new dream
“A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.” --— Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering ManSpeaker 3
Honey, you never looked better
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
You see, when the world turns upside down, the best thing is to turn right along with it --Mary Poppins ReturnsSpeaker 4
“Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager." --— John Taylor Gatto
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. --Anne Frank
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. --Alexander HamiltonSpeaker 5
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. --Aristotle
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. --Alice Walker
There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don't seem to help. --Fred RogersSpeaker 6
You shine like the light from the sun
“Political language [...] is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” --— George Orwell
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.Speaker 7
“There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.” --— Friedrich Hayek
Whoever is new to power is always harsh. --Aeschylus
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. --Lucretia Mott
Round 3 - 5:30 PM
Speaker 1
We didn’t set out to be superheroes. But sometimes life doesn’t go the way you planned --Big Hero 6
“As government expands, liberty contracts.” --— Ronald Reagan
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Speaker 2
"Society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.” --— Thomas Paine
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. --John Lennon
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.Speaker 3
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. --Ayn Rand
Love and success, always in that order. It's that simple AND that difficult. --Fred Rogers
No matter what anyone says, you’ll always be a prince to me --AladdinSpeaker 4
“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” --— Alan Moore
"That which is not just, is not law; and that which is not law, ought not to be obeyed." --— Algernon Sidney
“Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes, and his weaknesses.” --— DemocritusSpeaker 5
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. --Maslow
The healthiest response to life is joy. --Deepak Chopra
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” --— Malcolm XSpeaker 6
If you ain’t scared, you ain’t alive
What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be? --Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give)
"Shallow men believe in luck or circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. --— Ralph Waldo EmersonSpeaker 7
You're mad. Bonkers. Off your head. But I'll tell you a secret, all the best people are --Alice in Wonderland
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble
Round - 3:00 PM
Speaker 1
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.” --— Ray Bradbury
"The words of the world are the life of the world. It is the speech of truth in its true solitude: a nature that is created in what it says.” --— Wallace Stevens
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort. --Fred RogersSpeaker 2
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. --Bertrand Russell
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. --Ken Blanchard
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.Speaker 3
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. --Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good movie.” --— Jack Epps, Jr.
We may have our differences, but nothing's more important than family --CocoSpeaker 4
Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness. --Janisse Ray
"At least twice a day the most dignified human being is ridiculous." --— Ernst Lubitsch
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. --Anton ChekhovSpeaker 5
You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. --Benjamin Franklin
We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears. --Fred RogersSpeaker 6
Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! --Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote)
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” --— Albert Einstein Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
"You have no time to build your community when they keep you occupied with protests.” --— Hotep JesusSpeaker 7
The man of science is a poor philosopher. --Albert Einstein
Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. --Dennis Covington
To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Round - 5:30 PM
Speaker 1
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.” --— Ray Bradbury
"The words of the world are the life of the world. It is the speech of truth in its true solitude: a nature that is created in what it says.” --— Wallace Stevens
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort. --Fred RogersSpeaker 2
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. --Bertrand Russell
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. --Ken Blanchard
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.Speaker 3
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. --Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good movie.” --— Jack Epps, Jr.
We may have our differences, but nothing's more important than family --CocoSpeaker 4
Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness. --Janisse Ray
"At least twice a day the most dignified human being is ridiculous." --— Ernst Lubitsch
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. --Anton ChekhovSpeaker 5
You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. --Benjamin Franklin
We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears. --Fred RogersSpeaker 6
Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! --Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote)
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” --— Albert Einstein Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
"You have no time to build your community when they keep you occupied with protests.” --— Hotep JesusSpeaker 7
The man of science is a poor philosopher. --Albert Einstein
Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. --Dennis Covington
To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox