C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 8:00am

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “You may leave school, but it never leaves you.” –Andy Partridge
    2. “Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done.” –Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    3. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” –Helen Keller

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “In youth, we learn; in age, we understand.” –Marie von Ebner–Eschenbach
    2. “There is no such thing as part freedom.” –Nelson Mandela
    3. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” –Lao Tzu

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” –Galileo Galilei
    2. “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.” –Isaac Asimov
    3. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” –Albert Einstein

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “It’s not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.” –John Wooden
    2. “Things do not change. We change.” –Henry David Thoreau
    3. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” –Mahatma Gandhi

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” –Abraham Lincoln
    2. “If you win, say nothing. If you lose, say less.” –Paul Brown
    3. “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” –Andrew Carnegie

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

    2. “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” –Paul Boese

     

    3. “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” –Samuel Beckett

  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” –Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    2. “The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk
    3. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” –Aristotle

Round 2 - 9:30am

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." — John Lennon
    2. "Get busy living or get busy dying." — Stephen King
    3. "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."– Thomas A. Edison

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."– Albert Einstein
    2. "Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there." — Will Smith
    3. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.” – Lucretius
    2. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
    3. “Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “Don’t forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.” – Jacques Rigaut

    2. “When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.” – Euripides

     

    3. “Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.” – Shakespeare

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. "Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise." — Kobe Bryant
    2. “With foxes we must play the fox.” – Dr. Thomas Fuller
    3. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “Ideology separates us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” – Eugene Ionesco
    2. “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.” – Nietzsche
    3. "Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something." — Ashton Kutcher

  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell
    2. “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” — Elbert Hubbard
    3. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” — Oscar Wilde

     

Round 3 - 10:45am

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. "You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak." ― George Clooney
    2. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss
    3. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    2. “Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill
    3. “The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone,” Milan Kundera

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
    2. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." — Albert Einstein

    3. "Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated." — Confucius

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “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.” — Plato
    2. “It’s not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.” — John Wooden
    3. "Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this." — Celine Dion

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. "Being dead is like being stupid: it's only painful for others." - Ricky Gervais
    2. “If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.” — Elbert Hubbard
    3. “Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.” — Dale Turner

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. "The healthiest response to life is joy." — Deepak Chopra
    2. “Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.” — Robert Kennedy
    3. "Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." — Lillian Dickson

  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles.” Charles Chaplin
    2. “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.” — Lao-tze
    3. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll

Finals - 12:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." – Michael Jordan
    2. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
    3. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

  2. Speaker 2


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. "Life is about making an impact, not making an income." — Kevin Kruse
    2. "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." – Mark Twain
    3. “Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him.” — Dostoyevsky

  3. Speaker 3


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student

    1. "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." – Les Brown
    2. “Every day the clock resets. Your wins don't matter. Your failures don't matter. Don't stress on what was, fight for what could be.” – Sean Higgins
    3. “Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.” – Francisco Goya

  4. Speaker 4


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” – Anne Sexton
    2. “A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell.” – Thomas Fuller
    3. “There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.” – Arthur Rubinstein

  5. Speaker 5


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it.” – Ayn Rand
    2. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
    3. "The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes." —Frank Lloyd Wright

  6. Speaker 6


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.” – George Bernard Shaw
    2. “No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.” – Christian Nestell Bovee
    3. “To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.” – Benjamin Franklin

  7. Speaker 7


    Please copy/paste the following prompts into the 8x8 chat for the student:

    1. “I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.” – Bob Dylan
    2. "Every moment is a fresh beginning." —T.S. Eliot
    3. “Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles” – Mark Twain