B. High School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 1:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 1 -- Speaker 1
    If you play with fire, you’ll get burned
    If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself
    Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer
  2. Speaker 2


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 1 -- Speaker 2
    Knowledge is power
    Laughter is the best medicine.
    Like father, like son
  3. Speaker 3


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 1 -- Speaker 3
    No man is an island
    People who live in glass houses should not throw stones
    Practice makes perfect
  4. Speaker 4


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 1 -- Speaker 4
    The early bird gets the worm
    The enemy of my enemy is my friend
    The grass is always greener on the other side
  5. Speaker 5


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 1 -- Speaker 5
    The pen is mightier than the sword
    There is no place like home
    There is no time like the present
  6. Speaker 6


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 1 -- Speaker 6

    The squeaky wheel gets the grease

    Time is money

    Two heads are better than one

     

  7. Speaker 7


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 1 -- Speaker 7
    Two wrongs don’t make a right
    When in Rome, do as the Romans do
    When the going gets tough, the tough get going

Round 2 - 2:45pm

  1. Speaker 1


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 2 -- Speaker 1
    Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. --William James
    Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. --Abraham Cahan
    For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom. --Olof Palme
  2. Speaker 2


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 2 -- Speaker 2
    A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. --John Maynard Keynes
    Ideas are, in truth, force. --Henry James
    My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that. --Sam Raimi
  3. Speaker 3


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 2 -- Speaker 3
    The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. --Walter Benjamin
    Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change. --Barbara Januszkiewicz
    When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. --Elizabeth Bowen
  4. Speaker 4


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 2 -- Speaker 4
    Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. --Scott McCloud
    As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens. --Rick Perry
    By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. --Benjamin Franklin
  5. Speaker 5


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 2 -- Speaker 5
    We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. --John Archibald Wheeler
    That was cool and that sucked all at the same time. --Adam Savage
    The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. --Pierre Trudeau
  6. Speaker 6


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 2 -- Speaker 6
    Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. --John Burroughs
    But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. --Thomas Paine
    Bulls do not win bull fights. People do. --Norman Ralph Augustine
    

     

  7. Speaker 7


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 2 -- Speaker 7
    The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. --George Orwell
    It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. --W. C. Fields
    Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. --Joseph A. Schumpeter

Round 3 - 4:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 3 -- Speaker 1
    A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. --Elizabeth I
    We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones. --Ed Markey
    There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. --Steven Pinker
  2. Speaker 2


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 3 -- Speaker 2
    Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known. --Dee Dee Myers
    Hey 'Bachelor,' take notes! Trusting one another and sharing a journey to health leads to lasting relationships! --Alison Sweeney
    Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. --Carl Friedrich Gauss
  3. Speaker 3


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 3 -- Speaker 3
    History is the science of things which are not repeated. --Paul Valery
    Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. --John Maynard Keynes
    They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. --Friedrich Schiller
  4. Speaker 4


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 3 -- Speaker 4
    Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
    To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. --Robert M. Pirsig
    Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation. --Nicholas Hoult
  5. Speaker 5


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 3 -- Speaker 5
    We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. --Emile M. Cioran
    We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child. --Ronald Reagan
    Work isn't to make money you work to justify life. --Marc Chagall
  6. Speaker 6


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 3 -- Speaker 6
    The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. --Kevin Kelly
    Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. --Francis of Assisi
    

     

  7. Speaker 7


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 3 -- Speaker 7
    Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery. --Thomas Moore
    The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. --Milton Friedman
    Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers. --Ahmed Ben Bella

Finals - 5:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Finals -- Speaker 1
    Just do it. --Nike
    Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days. --Clint Eastwood
    It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. --Elsie de Wolfe
  2. Speaker 2


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Finals -- Speaker 2
    It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. --Doris Lessing
    One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. --Josh Billings
    A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. --Francis Bacon
  3. Speaker 3


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Finals -- Speaker 3
    We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling. --Neil LaBute
    Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. --Albert Pike
    The love of heaven makes one heavenly. --William Shakespeare
  4. Speaker 4


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Finals -- Speaker 4
    The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. --Vince Lombardi
    You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows. --Matt Drudge
    Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards. --Bradley Chicho
  5. Speaker 5


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Finals -- Speaker 5
    Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. --Lord Acton
    It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things. --Josh Brolin
    The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires. --Bradley Chicho
  6. Speaker 6


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Finals -- Speaker 6
    Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. --Sidney Altman
    The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. --Edward Teller
    We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond. --Zack Wamp
  7. Speaker 7


    2022 NOF Q3 -- Finals -- Speaker 7
    I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me. --Dave Attell
    As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong. --Arsene Wenger
    If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. --John Lennon