D. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 8:00am

Speaker 1

Glasses
Brain
Designer

Speaker 2

Tongue
Castle
Frock

Speaker 3

Music
Piano
Stomach

Speaker 4

Pants
Bill
Wrist

Speaker 5

Wallet
Razor
Peacock

Speaker 6

Film
Brass
Board

Speaker 7

Horn
Judge
Ears

Round 2 - 9:30am

Speaker 1

Happiness
Talent
Dream

Speaker 2

Delay
Goal
Nap

Speaker 3

Love
jealousy
Chaos

Speaker 4

Amazement
Annoyance
helplessness

Speaker 5

Unemployment
stupidity
Shock

Speaker 6

Appetite
submission
Sorrow

Speaker 7

Need
Disquiet
reason

Round 3 - 10:45am

Speaker 1

The fool speaks, the wise man listens. --African Proverb
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all. --Chinese Proverb
Better to be poor and healthy than rich and sick.

Speaker 2

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.
Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills. --Chinese Proverb
A thing begun is half done.

Speaker 3

Hindsight is better than foresight.
Blessings come in disguise. --Chinese Proverb
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Speaker 4

Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps. --Chinese Proverb
There are more ways than one to skin a cat.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Speaker 5

A child is a child of everyone.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
It takes more than one cold day for a river to freeze a meter deep. --Chinese Proverb

Speaker 6

Fine feathers make fine birds.
A good name is better than a good face. --Chinese Proverb
A tree is known by its fruit.

Speaker 7

Anger and madness are brothers. --African proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. --Chinese Proverb
Bitter pills may have blessed effects.

Finals - 12:15pm

Speaker 1

The only limit is your imagination --Big Hero 6
“There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.” --— Steven Soderbergh
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Speaker 2

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
We are the change that we seek. --Barack Obama
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. --Arnold Glasow

Speaker 3

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. --Anne Frank
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass. --Louise Erdrich (The Round House)

Speaker 4

“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” --— Margaret Thatcher
A thousand generations live in you now. But this is your fight. --Luke Skywalker, The Rise of Skywalker
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self. --Fred Rogers

Speaker 5

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. --Aldous Huxley
Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Speaker 6

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.” --James E. Faust
There was never a good war, or a bad peace. --Benjamin Franklin

Speaker 7

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. --Henry James
“I'd rather be No.2 forever than No. 1 for a while.” --— Paul Smith
Sometimes things fall apart, so that better things can fall together. --Marilyn Monroe