A. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 2:30 p.m.
Speaker 1
1. Beauty
2. Hatred
3. Love
Speaker 2
1. Friendship
2. Jealousy
3. Fear
Speaker 3
1. Anger
2. Rejection
3. Ideas
Speaker 4
1. Wit
2. Strength
3. Depression
Speaker 5
1. Laughter
2. Lazy
3. Growth
Speaker 6
1. Time
2. Travel
3. Competition
Speaker 7
1. Death
2. Debt
3. Blame
Round 2 - 4:00 p.m.
Speaker 1
1. "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.”
— Peter Steiner
2. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
— Hamlet
3. "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.”
— Mark Twain
Speaker 2
1. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
— Albert Einstein
2. "You may not think about politics but politics thinks about you.”
— Aung San
3. "Shallow men believe in luck or circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speaker 3
1. "If you sweep a conflict under the rug, eventually you're going to trip on it.”
— Dr. Marilyn Sorensen
2. "Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
— Marcus Aurelius
3. "The only way an artist can fail is to quit.”
— Thomas Hart Benton
Speaker 4
1. "You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.”
— Anthony Michael Hall
2. "If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.”
— George Bernard Shaw
3. "The difference between bravery and stupidity is timing.”
— Robert Burns
Speaker 5
1. "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. "The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”
— Benjamin Franklin
3. "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
— Margaret Thatcher
Speaker 6
1. "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”
— Albert Einstein
2. “The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
— Voltaire
3. "Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.”
— Amelia Earhart
Speaker 7
1. "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
— Martin Luther King, jr.
2. "You may not think about politics but politics thinks about you.”
— Aung San
3. "Great, we've made a great discovery!”
— Jonas Salk's response whenever he was told in the laboratory that something hadn't worked.