A. College Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 10:00am
Speaker 1
“Soldiers quartered in a populous town will always occasion two mobs where they prevent one. They are wretched conservators of the peace.” --— John Adams
What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
"There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.” --— R. Lee ErmeySpeaker 2
“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” --— Milton Friedman
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. --Albert Camus
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. --Mark TwainSpeaker 3
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. --Benjamin Franklin
“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” --— Elbert Hubbard
If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate. --Elbert HubbardSpeaker 4
"You may not think about politics but politics thinks about you.” --— Aung San
“When you feel like quitting: think about why you started.” --— Corey Borner
Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.Speaker 5
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. --Elbert Hubbard
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. --Benjamin Franklin
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 6
If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. --Erma Bombeck
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. --Cersei LannisterSpeaker 7
We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means. --Martin Luther King Jr.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
The only journey is the one within.
Round 2 - 11:45am
Speaker 1
Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it --Henry David Thoreau
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. --John F. Kennedy
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. --— Ephesians 6:12Speaker 2
"It is not the critic who counts. [...] The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. [...] His place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. --— Theodore Roosevelt
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it’s fixed. --David Hackworth
Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.Speaker 3
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. --Albert Einstein
“We need an anti-politics movement just as surely as we need an antiwar movement.” --— Jeff Deist
Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten --Lilo & StitchSpeaker 4
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. --Aldous Huxley
Our children need to see and know it’s possible to achieve their dreams and, more important, that they need to dream in the first place. --Lupita Nyong'o
"Words [...] are used to serve the speaker's or writer's agenda rather than to create understanding. Political jargon is abused until it loses all value, either to describe, praise, or insult.” --— Jeff DeistSpeaker 5
“Americans try on the spiritual life of others like they don’t have any of their own." --— A.M. Homes
"The better is the enemy of the good.” --— Voltaire
Humor is healing. --Brad GarrettSpeaker 6
I’m a big deal in the resistance. --Finn, The Force Awakens
"You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.” --— Anthony Michael Hall
"The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free." --— David MametSpeaker 7
“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” --— James Madison
I work really hard to just focus on the joy of the work that gets to be done. --Ava DuVernay
All of us, at some time or other, need help. --Fred Rogers
Round 3 - 1:15pm
Speaker 1
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. --John Quincy Adams
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. --Bruce Lee
"You snooze, you lose. I have snost and lost.” --— Mike DoughtySpeaker 2
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. --Aldous Huxley
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” --— George Bernard Shaw
Character is power. --Booker T. WashingtonSpeaker 3
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. --Benjamin Franklin
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. --Benjamin Franklin
When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old. --Bill ClintonSpeaker 4
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.
“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” --— Frank Zappa
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise. --Kobe BryantSpeaker 5
"You never know how fast you're going until you fall off." --— Surfer and filmmaker, Bruce Brown
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. --Aldous Huxley
You can’t tiptoe toward justice. You can’t walk up to the door all polite and knock once or twice, hoping someone’s home. Justice is a door that, when closed, must be kicked in. --Daniel José OlderSpeaker 6
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
The child is father of the man. --William Wordsworth
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. --Benjamin DisraeliSpeaker 7
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. --Anne Frank
Be patient and calm; no one can catch a fish with anger. --Herber Hoover
The night is dark and full of terrors. --Melisandre
Elim 1 - 3:00pm
Speaker 1
“The executive power is properly the government; the laws are a dead letter until an administration begins to carry them into execution.” --— John Adams
“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work.” --— Henry Ford
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.Speaker 2
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom' out of your vocabulary.” --— Malcolm X
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
If you're going hard enough left, you'll find yourself turning right --CarsSpeaker 3
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. --Benjamin Franklin
The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description… You have to create it for yourself. --Hillary Clinton
"Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.” --— Murphy's LawSpeaker 4
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. --James Madison
My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you. --Jenna JamesonSpeaker 5
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. --Albert Einstein
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” --— G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soulSpeaker 6
Whatever you are, be a good one. --Abraham Lincoln
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 7
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. --Aristotle
“Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.” --— Glennon Doyle, Untamed
"Great, we've made a great discovery!” --— Jonas Salk's response whenever he was told in the laboratory that something hadn't worked.
Elim 2 - 5:15pm
Speaker 1
“The executive power is properly the government; the laws are a dead letter until an administration begins to carry them into execution.” --— John Adams
“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work.” --— Henry Ford
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Speaker 2
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom' out of your vocabulary.” --— Malcolm X
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
If you're going hard enough left, you'll find yourself turning right --Cars
Speaker 3
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. --Benjamin Franklin
The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description… You have to create it for yourself. --Hillary Clinton
"Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.” --— Murphy's Law
Speaker 4
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. --James Madison
My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you. --Jenna Jameson
Speaker 5
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. --Albert Einstein
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” --— G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul
Speaker 6
Whatever you are, be a good one. --Abraham Lincoln
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 7
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. --Aristotle
“Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.” --— Glennon Doyle, Untamed
"Great, we've made a great discovery!” --— Jonas Salk's response whenever he was told in the laboratory that something hadn't worked.