D. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1: 8:00am
Speaker 1
Designer
Wallet
Boy
Speaker 2
Panda
Beans
Pig
Speaker 3
Sparrow
Museum
Stadium
Speaker 4
Ball
Stomach
Library
Speaker 5
Theater
Umbrella
Boots
Speaker 6
Laptop
Buffalo
Police station
Speaker 7
Ambulance
Surgeon
Governor
Round 2: 9:30am
Speaker 1
Talent
grace
omen
Speaker 2
Adventure
Philosophy
sophistication
Speaker 3
Right
Death
Friendship
Speaker 4
Argument
Peace
Loneliness
Speaker 5
Wit
Appetite
Goodness
Speaker 6
Ego
Weariness
Reality
Speaker 7
Uncertainty
misery
Charity
Round 3: 10:45am
Speaker 1
Eagles don’t catch flies.
Knowledge is power.
Money talks.
Speaker 2
Better to wear out rather rust out.
It takes two to tango.
No man is an island.
Speaker 3
When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets hurt. --African Proverb
If you pick up one end of the stick you also pick up the other. --Ethiopian proverb
Willful waste makes woeful want.
Speaker 4
A bad beginning makes a bad ending. --Chinese Proverb
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
Practice makes perfect
Speaker 5
A fall into a ditch makes you wiser. --Chinese Proverb
A book is a pocket garden. --Chinese Proverb
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
Speaker 6
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
He that beats the drum for the mad man to dance is no better than the mad man himself. --African proverb
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Speaker 7
When the cat’s away, the mice will play.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness
The longest mile is the last mile home.
Finals - 12:15pm
Speaker 1
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. --Fred Rogers
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. --Ronald Reagan
You shine like the light from the sun --The Lizzie McGuire Movie
Speaker 2
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. --Harvey Firestone
At this age, I should be leading a quiet life. --Aung San Suu Kyi
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. --Albert Einstein
Speaker 3
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. --Ayn Rand
Necessity never made a good bargain. --Benjamin Franklin
“You have enemies? Good...That means at some point in your life you stood for something." --— Winston Churchill
Speaker 4
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. --Aristotle
Character is power. --Booker T. Washington
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. --Albert Einstein
Speaker 5
"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.” --— Pearl Strachan
“It is difficulties that show what men are.” --— Epictetus
The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. --Eric Hoffer
Speaker 6
I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be. --Fred Rogers
Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away. --Bono
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. --Albert Einstein
Speaker 7
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended. --Benjamin Franklin
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. --Andrew Carnegie
You have to be secure in yourself to engage and challenge the mainstream. --Anne Poelina