A. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 2 - 10:45am
Speaker 1
Grandfather
Arrow
BalloonSpeaker 2
Computer
Hand
BabySpeaker 3
Stomach
Pad
BoySpeaker 4
Toy
Desktop
SpaghettiSpeaker 5
Mirror
Donkey
VillaSpeaker 6
Perfume
Bookcase
ToothpasteSpeaker 7
Ankle
Zebra
Butter
Round 3 - 12:45pm
Speaker 1
Dictatorship
Fiction
SatisfactionSpeaker 2
imagination
Horror
helpfulnessSpeaker 3
Amazement
wish
redemptionSpeaker 4
Awareness
sophistication
GoalSpeaker 5
Sanity
grief
HopeSpeaker 6
Peculiarity
Rumor
humorSpeaker 7
opportunism
Loss
Communication
Round 4 - 2:00pm
Speaker 1
Seeing is believing
Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands.
Fall seven times; stand up eight.Speaker 2
Least said, soonest mended.
You cannot build a house for last year’s summer. --Ethiopian proverb
If you don't do stupid things you won't end up in tragedy. --Chinese ProverbSpeaker 3
You can’t always get what you want
Love me, love my dog.
Wind isn't always favorable; soldiers aren't always victorious. --Chinese ProverbSpeaker 4
Kind words will unlock an iron door.
Don’t cast pearls before swine.
A friend in need is a friend indeedSpeaker 5
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Don’t judge a book by its cover
I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. --Chinese ProverbSpeaker 6
A smile dispels many worries. --Chinese Proverb
Don’t kill the goose that lays golden eggs.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. --Chinese ProverbSpeaker 7
Water flows in only to flow out. --Chinese Proverb
All lay loads on a willing horse.
A smile will gain you ten more years of life. --Chinese Proverb
Round 5 - 3:30pm
Speaker 1
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people. --Fred Rogers
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built in the human plan. We come with it. --Margareth Atwood
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. --Bill OwensSpeaker 2
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." --— Frédéric Bastiat
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. --Barbara JordanSpeaker 3
If you win, say nothing. If you lose, say less.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. --African Proverb
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best. --Andrew CarnegieSpeaker 4
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Sometimes you gotta get through your fear to see the beauty on the other sideSpeaker 5
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt
"Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.” --— James Russell Lowell
“Political correctness is not about being nice. It's about control.” --— Natalie F. DanelishenSpeaker 6
Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children. --Hillary Clinton
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. --Aristotle
We are the change that we seek. --Barack ObamaSpeaker 7
I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. --Barack Obama
"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in the case of conflict, the man before the dollar.” --— Abraham Lincoln
Honest people don't hide their deeds. --Emily Bronte
Round 6 - 5:00pm
Speaker 1
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. --Andrew Carnegie
Every day the clock resets. Your wins don't matter. Your failures don't matter. Don't stress on what was, fight for what could be.
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. --Fred RogersSpeaker 2
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
“The plans differ; the planners are all alike.” --— Frederic Bastiat
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. --Elie WieselSpeaker 3
"History only tastes bitter to those who thought it would taste sugar-coated.” --— Sans Soliel
I just can't wait for the future. --Amanda Seyfried
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.Speaker 4
"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.” --— R. Lee Ermey
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. --Benjamin Franklin
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor RooseveltSpeaker 5
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. --Lao Tzu
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. --AeschylusSpeaker 6
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history, or nothing happens. --Coretta Scott King
“You have enemies? Good...That means at some point in your life you stood for something." --— Winston Churchill
In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear.Speaker 7
“When we die, all our secrets are loosed [...] all that’s left of us is stories.” --— Tim Kreider
To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now. --Fred Rogers
"Taste is made up of a thousand distastes.” --— Paul Valéry