B. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 11:15
Speaker 1
Speaker 1:
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Louis L’Amour
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Success hinges less on getting everything right than on how you handle getting things wrong. - Michelle Russel
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Don’t look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity. - Paul Arden
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Speaker 2
Speaker 2:
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Save when you can and not when you have to. -Anonymous
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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. - Harold J. Smith
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If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. - Charles F. Kettering
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Speaker 3
Speaker 3:
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. - Maya Angelou
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. - Rumi
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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. - Rainer Maria Rilke
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Speaker 4
Speaker 4:
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Give equal space to the thought, "What if it all works out?" - Colleen Jornlin
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To get what you want, deserve what you want. Trust, success, and admiration are earned. - Charlie Munger
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For every inside there is an outside, and for every outside there is an inside; though they are different, they go together. - Alan Watts
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. - Christopher Hitchens
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Speaker 5
Speaker 5:
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockafeller
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As kids, we move a lot without thinking, but as grown-ups we think too much without moving. - Erwan Le Corre
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A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. - Herbert Simon
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Speaker 6
Speaker 6:
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. - Anne Lamott
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Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. - C.G. Jung
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard
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Speaker 7
Speaker 7:
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. - Heraclitus
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Your life is designed to get the results you are getting right now. Whether you realize it or not, you are the architect. - Shane Parrish
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Round 2 - 1:45
Speaker 1
Speaker 1:
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. - Dave Barry
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. -Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain
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Speaker 2
Speaker 2:
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If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think. - Oprah Winfrey
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In the absence of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras. - Tom Nolan
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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. - Sidney J. Harris
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Speaker 3
Speaker 3:
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Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions. -Ali Vincent
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How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! -Belva Plain
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Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore
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Speaker 4
Speaker 4:
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You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. -Scott Adams
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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel
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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. -Ken Hakuta
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Speaker 5
Speaker 5:
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself. -Alexis Carrel
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. -Simone Weil
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Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. -Claud Cockburn
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Speaker 6
Speaker 6:
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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. -Harriet Braiker
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I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. -Madonna
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If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. -Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Speaker 7
Speaker 7:
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. -Betty Friedan
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It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. -Edith Nesbitt
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If you don't risk anything you risk even more. -Erica Jong
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