B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 10:15a
Speaker 1
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'Restore connection' is not just for devices, it is for people too. If we cannot disconnect, we cannot lead. - Arianna Huffington
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"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela
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“If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.” Beyoncé
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Speaker 2
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I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it. -Serena Williams
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"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves." - Colin Powell
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"Power is not given to you. You have to take it." Beyoncé
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Speaker 3
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Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes. -Margaret Wheatley
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"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter." - James Earl Jones
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“Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.” Taylor Swift
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Speaker 4
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If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. -Dolly Parton
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. --George Patton
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“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Frank Zappa
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Speaker 5
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The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first. -Iyanla Vanzant
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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
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“Count your life by smiles, not tears” John Lennon
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Speaker 6
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Champions keep playing until they get it right. -Billie Jean King
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"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey
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Luck is being ready for the chance. --James Frank Dobie
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Round 2 - 12:30p
Speaker 1
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My best successes came on the heels of failures. -Barbara Corcoran
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"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." - Booker T. Washington
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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Speaker 2
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Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them. -Assata Shakur
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." - Desmond Tutu
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We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead. -Beyoncé
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Speaker 3
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. -Rosa Parks
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin
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“No worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.” Kanye West
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Speaker 4
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The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. -Ida B. Wells
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"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable." - Kenyan Proverb
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes
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Speaker 5
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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. -J. K. Rowling
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"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." - Maya Angelou
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“Know that, you aren’t alone. We all have doubts and fear.” Carole King
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Speaker 6
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We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. - Marie Curie
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"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less." - Eldridge Cleaver
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“Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.” B.B. King
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Round 3 - 2:45p
Speaker 1
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A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” John Cage
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“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” — Mark Twain
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Speaker 2
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A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. -Rosalynn Carter
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“Every something is an echo of nothing” John Cage
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“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” — Mark Twain
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Speaker 3
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The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. -Ayn Rand
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“Dare to wear the foolish clown face.” Frank Sinatra
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“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” — Mark Twain
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Speaker 4
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“Walk into the room purse first.” - Bob the Drag Queen
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“Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” John Lennon
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“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” ― Charles M. Schulz
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Speaker 5
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Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. -Elizabeth Gilbert
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“I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.” Taylor Swift
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“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.” ― Oscar Wilde
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Speaker 6
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Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. -Brené Brown
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Individualism is rather like innocence: there must be something unconscious about it. --Louis Kroenberger
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You can live only wholly with you or not at all. --Beethoven
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All Finals - 3:45p
Speaker 1
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"The time is always right to do what is right." - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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Speaking up and participating can get you just as far as training and ‘book knowledge.’ –Parul Shorey
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If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it. --Aretha Franklin
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Speaker 2
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"Have a vision. Be demanding." - Colin Powell
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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.” Lana del Rey
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Speaker 3
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"Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations." - Dr. Mae Jemison
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"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - Muhammad Ali
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"Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color." - Author Unknown
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Speaker 4
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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." - W.E.B. Du Bois
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. --Henry David Thoreau
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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that were the fruit is? --Frank Scully
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Speaker 5
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"God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed." - African Proverb
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Old and young, we are all on the last cruise. --Robert Louis Stevenson
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"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks
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Speaker 6
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"Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face." - Carol Moseley-Braun
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The closer to the truth, the closer to the nerve. --John Shanahan
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You can’t knock on an opportunity's door and not be ready. --Bruno Mars
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