A. College Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1: 1:30pm
Speaker 1
- It takes strength and courage to admit the truth. --Rick Riordan
- A great man is always willing to be little. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. --Bill Bradley
Speaker 2
- Whatever you are, be a good one. --Abraham Lincoln
- Walk away from it until you’re stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you’ll be better able to cope. --Lady Bird Johnson
- "You always pass failure on the way to success.” --— Mickey Rooney
Speaker 3
- Value your friendship. Value your relationships. --Barbara Bush
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary. --James Madison
- "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
Speaker 4
- Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. --Arthur Conan Doyle
- Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? --Marie Antoinette
- "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” --— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speaker 5
- The first mistake in public business is the going into it. --Benjamin Franklin
- A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. --Les Brown
- Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him. --Dostoyevsky
Speaker 6
- Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. --Anne Frank
- In youth, we learn; in age, we understand --Marie von Ebner–Eschenbach
- If people want to protest, to get out there and express themselves, as long as they do it peacefully, they should be encouraged to do so. --Keith Ellison
Speaker 7
- Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. --Tom Peters
- We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. --Albert Einstein
- "No nation was ever ruined by trade." --— Benjamin Franklin
Round 2: 3:00pm
Speaker 1
- Wherever women gather together failure is impossible. --Susan B. Anthony
- Your identity is your most valuable possession. Protect it --The Incredibles
- "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” --— Ingrid Bergman
Speaker 2
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. --Aristotle
- When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. --Lao Tzu
- One man with courage makes a majority. --Andrew Jackson
Speaker 3
- Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you. --Aldous Huxley
- You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. --Abraham Lincoln
- Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. --Paul Boese
Speaker 4
- "I have only two passions: space exploration and hip-hop.” --— Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who is producing a single with rapper Snoop Dogg.
- We must be our own before we can be another’s --Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Necessity never made a good bargain. --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 5
- From failure we learn, from success not so much --Meet the Robinsons
- You are nothing. A scavenger girl is no match for the power in me. I am all the Sith. --Emperor Palpatine, The Rise of Skywalker
- “It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.” --— Frank Zappa
Speaker 6
- 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
- We didn’t set out to be superheroes. But sometimes life doesn’t go the way you planned --Big Hero 6
- Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero. --Fred Rogers
Speaker 7
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt
- 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. --Warren Buffett
- Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. --Dolores Huerta
Round 3: 4:15pm
Speaker 1
- Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. --Sam Walton
- "A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.” --— George Bernard Shaw
- Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today. --Abraham Lincoln
Speaker 2
- You can’t tiptoe toward justice. You can’t walk up to the door all polite and knock once or twice, hoping someone’s home. Justice is a door that, when closed, must be kicked in. --Daniel José Older
- Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. --Benjamin Franklin
- "The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” --— Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 3
- Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!” --— Herman Melville
- It's hard to force creativity and humor. --Al Yankovic
Speaker 4
- The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action. --Malcolm X
- "If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” --— James Madison
- He who has great power should use it lightly. --Seneca
Speaker 5
- He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. --Benjamin Franklin
- It’s important to always look where you’re headed rather than where you were --The Lion King
- I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. --Milton Friedman
Speaker 6
- Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. --Aeschylus
- Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. --Howard Zinn
- 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
Speaker 7
- That's how we're gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love. --Rose, The Last Jedi
- Diligence is the mother of good luck. --Benjamin Franklin
- “He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral.” --— Thomas Aquinas
Finals: 5:45pm
Speaker 1
- Every moment is a fresh beginning. --T.S. Eliot
- He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. --Solon
- In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. --Alexander Hamilton
Speaker 2
- “Better that many guilty persons escape unpunished than one innocent person should be punished.” --— John Adams
- “It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites." --— Thomas Sowell
- It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. --Latin Proverb
Speaker 3
- I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. --Warren Buffett
- I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out. --Nancy Reagan
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. --Aristotle
Speaker 4
- “Seeing the people our friends are attracted to often illuminates aspects of their personalities we don’t recognize.” --— Tim Kreider
- The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. --Ayn Rand
- “Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. Sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.” --— Vince Lombardi
Speaker 5
- Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit a lot of people. --Kin Hubbard
- My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you. --Jenna Jameson
- “Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination.” --— Walter E. Williams
Speaker 6
- Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” --Spencer Johnson
- "The only essential difference between rock, water, air, life, galaxies, economies, civilizations, plastics is the rate of flow." --— Donovan Hohn
- “I’m intellectually lazy. […] If you’re anything like me, you don’t make up your mind about important issues by doing original research, poring over primary sources and coming to your own conclusions; you listen to people who claim to know what they’re talking about—“experts”—and try to determine which of them more credible.” --— Tim Kreider
Speaker 7
- As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. --Antisthenes
- Education is the best provision for old age. --Aristotle
- "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