B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Impromptu Round 1: 10:30am - 12:00pm
Speaker 1
1. “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” —Jonathan Lockwood Huie
2. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
3. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.
Speaker 2
1. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” —Oprah Winfrey
2.“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
3. Time is money. – Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker 3
1. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” —Robin Sharma
2. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ― Mother Theresa
3. Time waits for no one. – Folklore.
Speaker 4
1. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “The past is always tense, the future perfect.” ― Zadie Smith
3. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. – William Shakespeare.
Speaker 5
1. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” ―Josiyah Martin
2. “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
3. Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. – Theophrastus.
Speaker 6
1. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” —J.P. Morgan
2. “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”― John Banville, The Sea
3. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey.
Speaker 7
1. “New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” —Alex Morritt
2. “The past is never dead. It's not even past.” ― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
3. The trouble is, you think you have time. Jack Kornfield
Impromptu Round 2: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Speaker 1
1. Gratitude Journals
2. Sports Championships
3. Political Talk Shows
Speaker 2
1. Virtual Popularity
2. Career Ambition
3. Drinking Culture
Speaker 3
1. Quantum Computing
2. Engagment Rings
3. Democracy
Speaker 4
1. Veganism
2. Marriage
3. Owning pets
Speaker 5
1. Tech Gadgets
2. The American Dream
3. Financial Markets
Speaker 6
1. Home Ownership
2. College Education
3. Artificial Intelligence
Speaker 7
1. Social Media Influencers.
2. Superhero Films
3. Lists of Best/Worst Things
Impromptu Finals: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Speaker 1
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Speaker 2
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Speaker 3
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Speaker 4
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Speaker 5
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Speaker 6
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Speaker 7
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