B. High School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 1:30pm
Speaker 1
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“To teach is to learn.” - Japanese Proverb
“Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.” - French Proverb
“Words should be weighed, not counted.” - Yiddish Proverb
Speaker 2
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
1. Actions speak louder than words. - English Proverb
2. A large chair does not make a king. - Sudanese Proverb
3. Don't sail out farther than you can row back. - Danish Proverb
Speaker 3
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
1. Every cloud has a silver lining. - English Proverb
2. Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it. - Native Indian Proverb
3. Do good and throw it in the sea. - Arab Proverb
Speaker 4
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
1. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together - African Proverb
2. A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words. - Russian Proverb
3. The early bird gets the worm. - US Proverb
Speaker 5
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
1. Look before you leap. - English Proverb
2. It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb
3. Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence. - Spanish Proverb
Speaker 6
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
1. Make hay while the sun shines. - English Proverb
2. He who begins too much accomplishes little. - German Proverb
3. What you see in yourself is what you see in the world. - Afghan Proverb
Round 2 - 2:45pm
Speaker 1
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
1. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” – William Shakespeare
2. “Some philosophies take a thousand years. I think of them in two minutes.” – Sally
3. “Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important..” – T.S. Eliot
Speaker 2
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
1. “You can’t get there from here, and besides there is no place to go.” – Sheldon Kopp
2. “Greatness inspires envy; envy engenders spite; spite spawns lies.” – Young Voldemort
3. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
Speaker 3
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
1. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” - Oscar Wilde
2. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” - Margaret Mead
3. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” – Abraham Lincoln
Speaker 4
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
1. “Better 3 hours too soon than a minute too late.” - William Shakespeare
2. “Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.” - John Milton
3. “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speaker 5
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
1. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill
2. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” - Truman Capote
3. “Friendship … is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali
Speaker 6
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
1. “Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” – Rudyard Kipling
2. “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” - Will Rogers
3. “How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
Round 3 - 4:00pm
Speaker 1
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” - Napoleon Hill
“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh now.” - Marie Osmond
Speaker 2
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.” - George Washington
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” – Epicetus
“Keep your face always towards the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” - Walt Whitman
Speaker 3
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.” – Claire Fagan
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” - Leonardo Da Vinci
“Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.” – David Hilbert
Speaker 4
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” – Benjamin Disraeli
Speaker 5
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“One today is worth two tomorrows.” - Ben Franklin
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
Speaker 6
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“Survival can be summed up in three words: Never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.” – Bear Grylls
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.” – Blake Lively
Finals - 5:40pm
Speaker 1
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” - William Arthur Ward
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein
“There’s no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” - Jane Austen
Speaker 2
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” - Mark Twain
“Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say something.” - Plato
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” - Indira Gandhi
Speaker 3
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Boast not of what thou would’st have done, but do what then thou would’st.” -John Milton
“The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Speaker 4
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“Once a gentleman, always a gentleman.” - Charles Dickens
“Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth / Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.” -John Milton
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Speaker 5
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“We must scrunch or be scrunched.” -Charles Dickens
“Most men admire / Virtue who follow not her lore.” -John Milton
"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart." - Corrie Ten Boom
Speaker 6
Please copy and paste the following prompts into the chat window:
“Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The childhood shows the man, / As morning shows the day.” -John Milton
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.” -Charles Dickens