Tournament Time: 4:15 AM Pacific
C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1
Speaker 1
1. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
2. Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. - Ashton Kutcher
3. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie
Speaker 2
1. You don’t know what you can miss before you try. - Franklin Pierce
2. The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all - Mulan
3. Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Speaker 3
1. All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. - Earl Nightingale
2. A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. - John Maxwell
3. 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
Speaker 4
1. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
2. Do you believe in miracles? YES! - Miracle
3. Even miracles take a little time
Speaker 5
1. Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak. - Fred Rogers
2. Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. - John Quincy Adams
3. I just can't wait for the future. - Amanda Seyfried
Speaker 6
1. I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. - Aldous Huxley
2. “Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.” - — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3. The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Speaker 7
1. “Let the fools be parted from their money... if they are fools. Do not shackle them if, however, they are wise.” - — Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
2. “There's a Walter White in every person in the world.
3. “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.” - — Richard M. Nixon
Round 2
Speaker 1
1. Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
2. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
3. Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. - Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 2
1. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind s made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
2. Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit a lot of people. - Kin Hubbard
3. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein
Speaker 3
1. You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward. - Andre Agassi
2. If you're going hard enough left, you'll find yourself turning right - Cars
3. I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. - Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 4
1. Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
2. “The right to vote has no impact. You can change the future of a nation more by how you raise one child.” - — GK Chesterton
3. However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own
Speaker 5
1. It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.”
2. Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? - Charles Lindbergh
3. “What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in everything.” - — Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
Speaker 6
1. Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
2. “When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failures or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.” - — Thomas Sowell
3. Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley
Speaker 7
1. Applause waits on success. - Benjamin Franklin
2. Many foxes grow gray but few grow good. - Benjamin Franklin
3. With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. - Margaret Mitchell
Round 3
Speaker 1
1. It’s easier to do a job right, than to explain why you didn’t. - Martin Van Buren
2. Rebellions are built on hope. - Jyn, Rogue One
3. “Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.” - — Frédéric Bastiat
Speaker 2
1. Attitudes reflect leadership, captain
2. If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. - Benjamin Franklin
3. Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. - Bruce Lee
Speaker 3
1. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. - Brian Tracy
2. We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. - Alice Walker
3. Sometimes you try your hardest, but things don't work out the way you want them to - Lilo & Stitch
Speaker 4
1. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
2. “Once is a mistake, twice is jazz.” - — Attributed to Miles Davis
3. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. - Bruce Lee
Speaker 5
1. The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they're generally not the ones being touted in the news. - Fred Rogers
2. I’d just as soon kiss a wookiee.
3. Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance. - Alex Rodriguez
Speaker 6
1. “The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.” - — Frank Zappa
2. “It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
3. I am not a committee.
Speaker 7
1. Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. - Benjamin Franklin
2. Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances. - -Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. - Arthur Ashe