B. Championship Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 9:30am PST
Speaker 1
"The best revenge is massive success." -- Frank Sinatra
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. --Aeschylus
I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish. --Anna KendrickSpeaker 2
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." -- Coco Chanel
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." -- Arthur AsheSpeaker 3
"Don't put a ceiling on yourself.” --— Oprah Winfrey
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
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. --Lillian DicksonSpeaker 4
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. --Sam Levenson
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."--Vidal Sassoon
"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."--Katharine Hepburn
Speaker 5
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” --— Albert Camus
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. --Benjamin Franklin
It's hard to force creativity and humor. --"Weird Al" YankovicSpeaker 6
In this bright future you can't forget your past. --Bob Marley
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” --— Albert Einstein
“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.”― Dolly PartonSpeaker 7
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. --Harry S Truman
“At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time and nobody knew it.” --— Unknown
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. --Bell Hooks
Round 2 - 11:00am PST
Speaker 1
“I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this.” --— Ronald Reagan
I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. --Michael Jordan
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." -- Warren BuffettSpeaker 2
"Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.” --— Errol Flynn
If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same… yours is the earth and everything that’s in it, --Rudyard Kipling
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. --Warren BuffettSpeaker 3
We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest. --John Adams
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. --Benjamin Franklin
An activist is one who is actively involved in creating a community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality. --Jasmine GuySpeaker 4
To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs. --Aldous Huxley
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. --Benjamin Franklin
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." -- Mae WestSpeaker 5
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” --— Friedrich Nietzsche
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. --Benjamin Franklin
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 6
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. --Erskine Bowles
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. --Sun Tzu
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. --Anton ChekhovSpeaker 7
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. --Albert Einstein
“Once is a mistake, twice is jazz.” --— Attributed to Miles Davis
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. --Napoleon Hill
Round 3 - 1:30pm PST
Speaker 1
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. --Brian Tracy
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. --Nelson Mandela
"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." -- Coco ChanelSpeaker 2
"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others." -- Ellen DeGeneres
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. --John C. Maxwell
“The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the sea.” --— Isak DinesenSpeaker 3
There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it. --Fred Rogers
When you go to war, both sides lose totally. --Yoko Ono
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. --Albus DumbledoreSpeaker 4
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. --Theodore Roosevelt
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. --John Quincy Adams
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. --John MaxwellSpeaker 5
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. --Benjamin Franklin
It’s important to always look where you’re headed rather than where you were. -The Lion King
The words of truth are simple. --AeschylusSpeaker 6
"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."--Confucius
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. --Aristotle
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. --Les BrownSpeaker 7
Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life. --Fred Rogers
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress --Barack Obama
“Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves.” --— John Taylor Gatto
Elim 1 - 3:10pm PST
Speaker 1
Leadership is solving problems. --Colin Powell
Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed. --John Jay
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. --Aldous HuxleySpeaker 2
Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him. --Dostoyevsky
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. --Gilbert K Chesterton
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. --Margaret MitchellSpeaker 3
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. --Albert Camus
“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” --— Thomas Jefferson
A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep. --Tywin LannisterSpeaker 4
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. --Albert Einstein
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. --Isaac Asimov
If watchin' is all you're gonna do, then you're gonna watch your life go by without ya --Hunchback of Notre DameSpeaker 5
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone. --George Washington
Have the courage to act instead of react. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, sr.
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. --Albert CamusSpeaker 6
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success... Achieve! Achieve! --Andrew Carnegie
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. --Lao TzuThey always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. --Andy Warhol
Speaker 7
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. - Jane Austen
To infinity and beyond!“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. ”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Elim 2 - 5:00pm
Speaker 1
1. It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. --Harry S. Truman
2. The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. --Albert Einstein3. “Life is short, eat the cheesecake.” -- T-shirt
Speaker 2
1. Open different doors, you may find a 'you' there that you never knew was yours. --Mary Poppins
2. “Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.” -Dean Smith
3. It's not easy being green. -Kermit the FrogSpeaker 3
1. “Don’t worry about being cool. Worry about being the best” -Jeff Van Gundy
2. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. --John F. Kennedy
3. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. --Aldous HuxleySpeaker 4
1. We make war that we may live in peace. --Aristotle
2. "It is far better to shoot an airball than to not shoot at all for fear of missing." -Tony Alfonso
3. "You can't have creativity without chutzpah." --— Yossi VardiSpeaker 5
1. If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. --James Madison
2. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. — Ralph Nader
3. The less you talk, the more you're listened to. --Abigail Van BurenSpeaker 6
1. “Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.” - John Wooden
2. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. -- Steve Jobs
3. If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity. --Albert Einstein
Speaker 7
1. “Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.” - Coach K
2. At this age, I should be leading a quiet life. --Aung San Suu Kyi
3. One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. --Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra