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