C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    “Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?” --— Robert Frost
    We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. --Albus Dumbledore
    “I’ve had the kind of romantic life that would give a biographer a lot to work with.” --— Tim Kreider

  2. Speaker 2


    Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. --Albert Einstein
    Independence is happiness.
    The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. --Aldous Huxley

  3. Speaker 3


    He that can have patience can have what he will. --Benjamin Franklin
    A great man is always willing to be little.
    You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages. --Michelle Obama

  4. Speaker 4


    We are the change that we seek. --Barack Obama
    To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. --Benjamin Franklin
    Your focus determines your reality.

  5. Speaker 5


    Don’t wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.
    It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. --Albus Dumbledore
    The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead. --BoJack Horseman

  6. Speaker 6


    We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. --Marco Rubio
    I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. --Anne Frank
    "Stories unite people. Theories divide them.” --— Dr. James Billington (Librarian of Congress)

  7. Speaker 7


    I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. --Aldous Huxley
    Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. --Albert Einstein
    Winter is coming. --Game of Thrones

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    “Ridicule educates observers. […] The goal is not to educate the recipient of the ridicule.” --— Ian Miles Cheong
    We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Though at times it may feel like the sky is falling around you, never give up, for every day is a new day --Chicken Little

  2. Speaker 2


    Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. --Alice Walker
    I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. --Lucille Ball
    The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. --Jackie Kennedy

  3. Speaker 3


    We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. --Alice Walker
    Have the courage to act instead of react.
    I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change. --DeRay Mckesson

  4. Speaker 4


    “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” --— Thomas Jefferson
    Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. --Benjamin Franklin
    Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

  5. Speaker 5


    Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. --Aldous Huxley
    Keep calm and carry on.
    This cannot be a team of common men because common men go nowhere. You have to be uncommon --Miracle

  6. Speaker 6


    I am not a prize to be won --Aladdin
    Courage is grace under pressure. --Ernest Hemingway
    Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. --Aldous Huxley

  7. Speaker 7


    I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. --Barack Obama
    Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. --Aristotle
    Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. --Arnold Schwarzenegger

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    Just because it's what's done, doesn't mean it's what should be done --Cinderella
    “He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral.” --— Thomas Aquinas
    “Good stories seldom come from happy experiences.” --— Tim Kreider

  2. Speaker 2


    “One often contradicts an opinion when it is really only the tone in which it has been presented that is unsympathetic.” --— Friedrich Nietzsche
    "If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.” --— Orville Wright
    As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. --Antisthenes

  3. Speaker 3


    Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
    Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
    You just focused on the bad stuff when all you had to do was let go of the past and keep moving forward --Meet the Robinsons

  4. Speaker 4


    The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
    To know oneself, one should assert oneself. --Albert Camus
    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 Owens

  5. Speaker 5


    Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
    Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts --Aladdin
    Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

  6. Speaker 6


    If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. --Toni Morrison
    Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. --Aristotle
    Many foxes grow gray but few grow good. --Benjamin Franklin

  7. Speaker 7


    I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. --Benjamin Franklin
    I trust myself. You need that to survive.
    Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. --Albert Einstein

Elim 1

  1. Speaker 1


    "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." --— Robert Frost
    I don’t see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad
    Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

  2. Speaker 2


    Your identity is your most valuable possession. Protect it
    Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone. --George Washington
    I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. --Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  3. Speaker 3


    It is better to be alone than in bad company. --George Washington
    I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
    You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. --Albert Camus

  4. Speaker 4


    You know nothing, Jon Snow. --Game of Thrones
    We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it. --Boris Yeltsin
    Great lives never go out; they go on. --Benjamin Harrison

  5. Speaker 5


    If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
    All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. --Earl Nightingale
    Champions keep playing until they get it right. --Billie Jean King

  6. Speaker 6


    "You can't put paradise in a tour book. You have to discover it." --— Elna Baker
    Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. --Albert Einstein
    To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. --Aldous Huxley

  7. Speaker 7


    The ancestor of every action is a thought.
    Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
    If you think you have it tough, read history books. --Bill Maher