D. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 8:00am
Speaker 1
- Ears
- Bookstore
- Fan
Speaker 2
- Brass
- Plane
- Teen
Speaker 3
- Model
- Scissors
- Notebook
Speaker 4
- Leg
- Taxi
- Egg
Speaker 5
- Sandwich
- Doctor
- Tunnel
Speaker 6
- Jewelry
- Treehouse
- Balloon
Speaker 7
- Cookware
- Donkey
- Baby
Round 2 - 9:30am
Speaker 1
- Better late than never.
- A leopard doesn’t change its spots
- If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back. --Chinese Proverb
Speaker 2
- I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet. --Irish proverb
- Two wrongs don’t make a right
- Even the best cooking pot will not produce food. --African proverb
Speaker 3
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do
- Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
- When the roots of a tree begin to decay, it spreads death to the branches. --Nigerian proverb
Speaker 4
- The man who has luck in the morning has luck in the afternoon. --Irish proverb
- If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building or do you change the nail? --Rwandan proverb
- When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Speaker 5
- What goes around comes around
- There's no such thing as a free lunch.
- You have little power over what’s not yours. --Zimbabwean proverb
Speaker 6
- Slander by the stream will be heard by the frogs. --Mozambican proverb
- You can’t judge a book by its cover.
- When it rains, it pours.
Speaker 7
- A child is a child of everyone. --Sudanese proverb
- Better late than never
- The pen is mightier than the sword
Round 3 - 10:45am
Speaker 1
- Sorrow
- Gain
- Strength
Speaker 2
- Union
- Delight
- Relief
Speaker 3
- Cleverness
- Defeat
- Laughter
Speaker 4
- Shock
- Love
- Worry
Speaker 5
- Tiredness
- Coldness
- Speed
Speaker 6
- Growth
- Advantage
- Dream
Speaker 7
- Fear
- Courage
- Hatred
Finals - 12:15pm
Speaker 1
- The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. --Albert Einstein
- Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. --Donald Rumsfeld
- Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. --George Washington
Speaker 2
- What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog. --Dwight D. Eisenhower
- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. --Abraham Maslow
- What you do has far greater impact than what you say. --Stephen Covey
Speaker 3
- A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue --James Monroe
- The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency. --Aldous Huxley
- Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business. --Ben Horowitz
Speaker 4
- The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. --Albert Einstein
- Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars. --Anwar Sadat
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. --Hermann Hesse
Speaker 5
- There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. --Andrew Carnegie
- A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. --Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. --Aesop
Speaker 6
- Humor is healing. --Brad Garrett
- The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. --Antisthenes
- You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. --Warren Buffett
Speaker 7
- Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. --Maya Angelou
- Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. --Mother Teresa
- Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. --John Zenger