B. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 11:15

  1. Speaker 1


    Speaker 1: 

    • There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Louis L’Amour

    • Success hinges less on getting everything right than on how you handle getting things wrong. - Michelle Russel

    • Don’t look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity. - Paul Arden 

  2. Speaker 2


    Speaker 2: 

    • Save when you can and not when you have to. -Anonymous

    • More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. - Harold J. Smith

    • If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. - Charles F. Kettering

  3. Speaker 3


    Speaker 3: 

    • Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. - Maya Angelou

    • A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. - Rumi

    • Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. - Rainer Maria Rilke

  4. Speaker 4


    Speaker 4: 

    • Give equal space to the thought, "What if it all works out?" - Colleen Jornlin

    • To get what you want, deserve what you want. Trust, success, and admiration are earned. - Charlie Munger

    • For every inside there is an outside, and for every outside there is an inside; though they are different, they go together. - Alan Watts

    • The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. - Christopher Hitchens

  5. Speaker 5


    Speaker 5: 

    • Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockafeller

    • As kids, we move a lot without thinking, but as grown-ups we think too much without moving. - Erwan Le Corre

    • A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. - Herbert Simon

  6. Speaker 6


    Speaker 6: 

    • Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. - Anne Lamott

    • 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

    • How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard

  7. Speaker 7


    Speaker 7: 

     

    • 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

    • The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. - Heraclitus

    • 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

Round 2 - 1:45

  1. Speaker 1


    Speaker 1: 

    • Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. - Dave Barry

    • Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. -Rabbi Abraham Heschel

    • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain

  2. Speaker 2


    Speaker 2: 

    • If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think. - Oprah Winfrey 

    • In the absence of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras. - Tom Nolan

    • 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

  3. Speaker 3


    Speaker 3: 

    • Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions. -Ali Vincent

    • How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! -Belva Plain

    • 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

  4. Speaker 4


    Speaker 4: 

    •  You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. -Scott Adams

    •  In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel

    • Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. -Ken Hakuta

  5. Speaker 5


    Speaker 5: 

    •  Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself. -Alexis Carrel

    •  Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. -Simone Weil

    • Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. -Claud Cockburn

  6. Speaker 6


    Speaker 6: 

    •  Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. -Harriet Braiker

    • I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. -Madonna

    • If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. -Michelangelo Buonarroti

  7. Speaker 7


    Speaker 7: 

     

    •  It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. -Betty Friedan

    •  It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. -Edith Nesbitt

    • If you don't risk anything you risk even more. -Erica Jong