C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 10:00am
Speaker 1
Faint hearts never won fair lady
Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life. --Fred Rogers
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror." --— Rainer Maria RilkeSpeaker 2
“If you can't convince them, scare them.” --— the government
Imagination decides everything. --Blaise Pascal
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.Speaker 3
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. --Mickey Mantle
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. --Andrew Carnegie
I like firsts. Good or bad, they’re always memorable. --Ahsoka Tano, The MandalorianSpeaker 4
Change is such hard work. --Billy Crystal
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. --Benjamin Franklin
A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.Speaker 5
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress --Barack Obama
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. --Anne Frank
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. --B. B. KingSpeaker 6
God helps those who help themselves. --Benjamin Franklin
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live. --Anne Sweeney
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. --John MaxwellSpeaker 7
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business. --Ben Horowitz
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. --Bill Gates
Round 2 - 11:45am
Speaker 1
Never give an order that can't be obeyed. --General Douglas MacArthur
"Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!” --— Herman Melville
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 2
I work really hard to just focus on the joy of the work that gets to be done. --Ava DuVernay
It is never too late to be what you might have been. --George Eliot
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 3
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. --Hermann Hesse
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.Speaker 4
This is the perfect time to panic!
“Political language [...] is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” --— George Orwell
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.Speaker 5
A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength but by the strength of his heart --Hercules
Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.Speaker 6
The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability
"Pride is the crutch of the insecure.” --— Unknown
Things don't have to change the world to be important.Speaker 7
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. --Anne Frank
Honesty has a power that very few people can handle.
Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're 'equally infinite.' --Fred Rogers
Round 3 - 1:30pm
Speaker 1
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked. --Allen Ginsberg,
“I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this.” --— Ronald Reagan
Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away. --BonoSpeaker 2
Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it. --C. Joy Bell
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. --Alexander Hamilton
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 3
"The words of the world are the life of the world. It is the speech of truth in its true solitude: a nature that is created in what it says.” --— Wallace Stevens
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. --Maslow
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. --Marge PiercySpeaker 4
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. --Barbara Bush
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” --— Leonardo da VinciSpeaker 5
There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. --Arthur Rubinstein
There’s a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It’s exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don’t cheat yourselves out of this promise.
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. --Cersei LannisterSpeaker 6
"All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education." --— Frédéric Bastiat
In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it’s only good if they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you. --Auliq Ice
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. --Langston HughesSpeaker 7
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. --Booker T. Washington
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. --Mother Teresa
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” --— G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
Elim 1
Speaker 1
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue --James Monroe
Ideology separates us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. --Eugene Ionesco
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. --Gary SnyderSpeaker 2
"When there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, [...] it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not.” --— T.S. Eliot
"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.” --— George Bernard Shaw
No matter what anyone says, you’ll always be a prince to me --AladdinSpeaker 3
"It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.” --— Mia Hamm
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. --Charles Swindoll
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. --Benjamin FranklinSpeaker 4
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.Speaker 5
“Cinema lies, sport doesn’t.” --— Jean-Luc Goddard.
In my experience, there’s no such thing as luck.
"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.” --— George SandSpeaker 6
If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. --Harry S. Truman
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. --Alfred North WhiteheadSpeaker 7
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. --Barbara Bush
"You always pass failure on the way to success.” --— Mickey Rooney
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. --Andrew Johnson