A. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 10:00am

  1. Speaker 1


    Trousers
    Smoke
    Teacher

  2. Speaker 2


    Ginger
    Mother
    Washing machine

  3. Speaker 3


    Vase
    Bitterness
    Woman

  4. Speaker 4


    Heart
    Swan
    Bat

  5. Speaker 5


    Scale
    Petrol station
    Apple

  6. Speaker 6


    Fruit
    Grandfather
    Vehicle

  7. Speaker 7


    Galaxy
    Horse
    Desktop

Round 2 - 11:15am

  1. Speaker 1


    Adoration
    information
    Movement

  2. Speaker 2


    Dedication
    Riches
    Advantage

  3. Speaker 3


    Talent
    Ability
    Annoyance

  4. Speaker 4


    redemption
    Worry
    sadness

  5. Speaker 5


    Hurt
    jealousy
    enhancement

  6. Speaker 6


    Disturbance
    Life
    Solitude

  7. Speaker 7


    Sleep
    Apprehension
    Anger

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    Beauty is only skin deep.
    Better to be poor and healthy than rich and sick.
    Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great. --Chinese Proverb

  2. Speaker 2


    Adversity and loss make a man wise.
    When the shepherd comes home in peace, the milk is sweet. --Ethiopian proverb
    You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

  3. Speaker 3


    The young bird does not crow until it hears the old ones.
    A thing begun is half done.
    Kings have long arms.

  4. Speaker 4


    Clothes do not make a man.
    Let sleeping dogs lie.
    You can’t always get what you want

  5. Speaker 5


    Hard words break no bones.
    Willful waste makes woeful want.
    Two heads are better than one

  6. Speaker 6


    Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills. --Chinese Proverb
    You have little power over what’s not yours.
    If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

  7. Speaker 7


    Tenacity and adversity are old foes. --Chinese Proverb
    A little fire that warms is better than a big fire that burns. --Irish proverb
    If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.

Finals - 1:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    "A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” --— Jean de La Fontaine
    Venture outside your comfort zone. The rewards are worth it
    Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. --Albert Einstein

  2. Speaker 2


    It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
    Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
    Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect. --Fred Rogers

  3. Speaker 3


    You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill. --John Taylor Gatto
    In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. --Alice Walker
    "No feeling is final.” --— Rainer Maria Rilke

  4. Speaker 4


    In every fairy tale, there is a kernel of truth. --Geralt of Rivia
    They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. --Andy Warhol
    Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.

  5. Speaker 5


    As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. --John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
    Tell the children the truth. --Bob Marley
    You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. --Indira Gandhi

  6. Speaker 6


    You want something done, you've got to do it yourself
    “Everyone is the most important person in the world—at least to that one person." --— Ben Folds
    That's how we're gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love.

  7. Speaker 7


    Sometimes our strengths lie beneath the surface --Moana
    If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. --Albert Einstein
    Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit a lot of people. --Kin Hubbard