B. High School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 1:30pm
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 closerSpeaker 2
2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 1 -- Speaker 2
Knowledge is power
Laughter is the best medicine.
Like father, like sonSpeaker 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 perfectSpeaker 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 sideSpeaker 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 presentSpeaker 6
2022 NOF Q3 -- Round 1 -- Speaker 6
The squeaky wheel gets the grease
Time is money
Two heads are better than one
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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