B. Championship Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 9:30am PST

  1. 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 Kendrick

  2. Speaker 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 Ashe

  3. Speaker 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 Dickson

  4. Speaker 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

  5. 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" Yankovic

  6. Speaker 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 Parton

  7. Speaker 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

  1. 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 Buffett

  2. Speaker 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 Buffett

  3. Speaker 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 Guy

  4. Speaker 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 West

  5. Speaker 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 Franklin

  6. Speaker 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 Chekhov

  7. Speaker 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

  1. 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 Chanel

  2. Speaker 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 Dinesen

  3. Speaker 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 Dumbledore

  4. Speaker 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 Maxwell

  5. Speaker 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. --Aeschylus

  6. Speaker 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 Brown

  7. Speaker 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

  1. 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 Huxley

  2. Speaker 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 Mitchell

  3. Speaker 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 Lannister

  4. Speaker 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 Dame

  5. Speaker 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 Camus

  6. Speaker 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 Tzu

    They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. --Andy Warhol

  7. 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

  1. 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 Einstein

    3.  “Life is short, eat the cheesecake.” -- T-shirt

  2. 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 Frog

  3. Speaker 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 Huxley

  4. Speaker 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 Vardi

  5. Speaker 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 Buren

  6. Speaker 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

  7. 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