A. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 4:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Ocean
    Pigeon
    Cafe

  2. Speaker 2


    Table
    Ring
    Buffalo

  3. Speaker 3


    Train
    Bakery
    Hamburger

  4. Speaker 4


    Gown
    Musician
    Kid

  5. Speaker 5


    Son
    Bus stop
    Oven

  6. Speaker 6


    Watch
    Apartment
    Board

  7. Speaker 7


    Conditioner
    Pasta
    Toothbrush

Round 2 - 5:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Loneliness
    Power
    parenthood

  2. Speaker 2


    Union
    Dictatorship
    Shock

  3. Speaker 3


    Philosophy
    Sacrifice
    helplessness

  4. Speaker 4


    grace
    Fiction
    sophistication

  5. Speaker 5


    humility
    Artisty
    Calm

  6. Speaker 6


    Wariness
    Inflation
    Evil

  7. Speaker 7


    imagination
    Horror
    Disquiet

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    Knowledge is power.
    Keep the general goal in sight while tackling daily tasks. --Chinese Proverb
    It is easy to find a thousand soldiers, but hard to find a good general. --Chinese Proverb

  2. Speaker 2


    Birds of a feather flock together
    There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet. --Chinese Proverb
    It takes a village to raise a child.

  3. Speaker 3


    If a family is harmonious everything will go well. --Chinese Proverb
    A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind. --Chinese Proverb
    After the feast comes the reckoning.

  4. Speaker 4


    Great wisdom can seem foolish. --Chinese Proverb
    When in Rome, do as the Romans do
    To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day. --Chinese Proverb

  5. Speaker 5


    Make hay while the sun shines.
    If you don't do stupid things you won't end up in tragedy. --Chinese Proverb
    He who digs a grave for his enemy might as well be digging one for himself. --African Proverb

  6. Speaker 6


    Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
    A book holds a house of gold. --Chinese Proverb
    After victory, tighten your helmet chord.

  7. Speaker 7


    Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
    Its better to be safe than sorry
    The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet tall.

Finals

  1. Speaker 1


    The only way to stop feeling afraid of something is to face it.
    In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
    One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. --Arnold Glasow

  2. Speaker 2


    These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
    You will always be in my heart
    The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. --Bruce Lee

  3. Speaker 3


    You see, when the world turns upside down, the best thing is to turn right along with it --Mary Poppins Returns
    “All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.” --— Ludwig von Mises
    It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

  4. Speaker 4


    “Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him" --— James Allen
    “I find it very hard to vote for someone who's going to have power over me." --— Norm Macdonald
    Never tell me the odds. --Han Solo, The Empire Strikes Back

  5. Speaker 5


    Rebellions are built on hope. --Jyn, Rogue One
    "The artist should never try to be popular. The public should try to be more artistic.” --— Oscar Wilde
    So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. --Aldous Huxley

  6. Speaker 6


    After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
    Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. --Abraham Lincoln
    Life's a little bit messy. We all make mistakes. No matter what type of animal you are, change starts with you

  7. Speaker 7


    Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. --Donald Rumsfeld
    Be careful not to choke on your aspirations, director. --Darth Vader, Rogue One
    Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. --Mark Twain