C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 8:00am
Speaker 1
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. --Albert Camus
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight. --Bob Marley
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. --Pat Riley
Speaker 2
“When you feel like quitting: think about why you started.” --— Corey Borner
"Brevity is the soul of wit.” --— Hamlet
There is always something left to love. --Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
Speaker 3
“Once is a mistake, twice is jazz.” --— Attributed to Miles Davis
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.” --— Alfred Hitchcock
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good movie.” --— Jack Epps, Jr.
Speaker 4
That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most --Up
Life is a flower of which love is the honey. --Victor Hugo
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. --William Faulkner
Speaker 5
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. --Buddha
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. --Napoleon Bonaparte
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. --Barbara Bush
Speaker 6
"He brought his ‘C' game. Normally he's a 'D' game kinda guy, but he gave a little bit more this time.” --— Adam Carolla
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. --Bo Jackson
"We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” --— John F. Kennedy
Speaker 7
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. --Ashton Kutcher
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' --Eleanor Roosevelt
I don’t feel that because I’m First Lady, I’m very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone. --Betty Ford
Round 2 - 9:30am
Speaker 1
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. --Benjamin Franklin
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. --African Proverb
Speaker 2
“We are living in an age that glorifies the single study." --— Nina Strohminger
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. --Plato
If you ain’t scared, you ain’t alive --The Good Dinosaur
Speaker 3
No longer certain that one ever does win a war, I am. --Yoda, The Clone Wars
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. --Fred Rogers
In the long run, there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one’s position, state it bravely and then act boldly. --Eleanor Roosevelt
Speaker 4
If you don’t challenge things, all you have done is passed it on to the next woman to deal with. --Julia Hardy
"Taste is made up of a thousand distastes.” --— Paul Valéry
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. --Albert Einstein
Speaker 5
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. --Benjamin Franklin
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. --Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
Just because it's what's done, doesn't mean it's what should be done --Cinderella
Speaker 6
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. --Peter Drucker
History is always changing. --Aung San Suu Kyi
The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability --Ratatouille
Speaker 7
The ancestor of every action is a thought. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You have no time to build your community when they keep you occupied with protests.” --— Hotep Jesus
"All men dream: but not equally.” --— T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Round 3 - 10:45am
Speaker 1
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. --Aldous Huxley
You have the ability to choose what you want to experience. --Rhonda Byrne
The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on. --Barack Obama
Speaker 2
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. --Warren Bennis
“An excess of reason is in itself a form of madness.” --— Kim Stanley Robinson
If we talked about anything else, we might expose the fact that most of our arrogance is based on exploiting a fashionable alienation rather than on anything substantial. --Jhonen Vasquez, JTHM
Speaker 3
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. --Benjamin Franklin
“The state is a soulless machine. It can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” --— Mahatma Gandhi
The best way to predict the future is to create it. --Peter Drucker
Speaker 4
It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do. --E.A. Bucchianeri
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. --Andrew Jackson
“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.” --— John Adams
Speaker 5
If you're gonna be the death of me, that's how I wanna go. --Bridgerton
I want to put a ding in the universe. --Steve Jobs
Courage is grace under pressure. --Ernest Hemingway
Speaker 6
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. --Colin Powell
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. --Sir Winston Churchill
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom' out of your vocabulary.” --— Malcolm X
Speaker 7
"Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.” --— Peter Bilak
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. --Erma Bombeck
Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts --Aladdin
Finals - 12:15pm
Speaker 1
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? --Charles Lindbergh
“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.” --— Abigail Adams
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” --— Margaret Thatcher
Speaker 2
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic.” --— Bumper Sticker
“The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the sea.” --— Isak Dinesen
Speaker 3
“Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.” --— Ludwig von Mises
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. --Albert Einstein
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. --Stephen Covey
Speaker 4
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. --Andrew Carnegie
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. --Albert Einstein
Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! --Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote)
Speaker 5
“Political language [...] is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” --— George Orwell
Because it’s not worth winning if you can’t win big --The Mighty Ducks
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness. --Euripides
Speaker 6
"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." --— E.L. Doctorow
A woman is like a teabag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. --Eleanor Roosevelt
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind. --David G. Allen
Speaker 7
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. --Mark Twain
“My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to stay sane.” --— David Sipress
The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow. --Ron Paul