C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  The secret to humor is surprise. - Aristotle

    2.  “There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” - — John Adams

    3.  A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. - Marge Piercy

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. - Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake)

    2.  The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. - Gilbert K Chesterton

    3.  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S. Truman

    2.  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

    3.  Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. - Anton Chekhov

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

    2.  In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. - Alice Walker

    3.  As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. - John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington

    2.  It's up to you how far you go. If you don't try, you'll never know

    3.  It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

    2.  All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. - Benjamin Franklin

    3.  It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. - Aldous Huxley

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  “Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.” - — Tim Kreider

    2.  Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. - Albert Einstein

    3.  Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. - Albert Einstein

  8. Speaker 8


    1.  It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - Albus Dumbledore

    2.  I want to put a ding in the universe.

    3.  The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. - Jim Rohn

  9. Speaker 9


    1.  One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson

    2.  We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. - Albert Einstein

    3.  Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle

  10. Speaker 10


    1.  Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles. - Charles Chaplin

    2.  The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. - Andrew Johnson

    3.  I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert Swope

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  Keep calm and carry on.

    2.  The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - Max DePree

    3.  I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. - Benjamin Franklin

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X

    2.  The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

    3.  A thousand generations live in you now. But this is your fight. - Luke Skywalker, The Rise of Skywalker

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  It's hard to force creativity and humor. - Al Yankovic

    2.  All men by nature desire knowledge. - Aristotle

    3.  How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning? - Fred Rogers

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  When life gets you down you know what you've gotta do? Just keep swimming - Finding Nemo

    2.  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. - Dr. Seuss

    3.  Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. - Jackie Kennedy

    2.  “The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the sea.” - — Isak Dinesen

    3.  There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy - George Washington

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol

    2.  Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. - Benjamin Franklin

    3.  I trust myself. You need that to survive.

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are. - Fred Rogers

    2.  If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

    3.  Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. - Aldous Huxley

  8. Speaker 8


    1.  I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. - Milton Friedman

    2.  I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value. - Amy Schumer

    3.  I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change. - Marley Dias

  9. Speaker 9


    1.  You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think

    2.  The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does. - Barbara Bush

    3.  A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.

  10. Speaker 10


    1.  “Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.” - — John Adams

    2.  I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. - Alexander the Great

    3.  Don’t forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror. - Jacques Rigaut

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    1.  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.

    2.  Sometimes our strengths lie beneath the surface - Moana

    3.  Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

  2. Speaker 2


    1.  “Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” - — Napoléon Bonapart

    2.  Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.

    3.  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

  3. Speaker 3


    1.  “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.” - — Jan-Jacques Rousseau

    2.  “The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.” - — Ludwig von Mises

    3.  Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. - Aldous Huxley

  4. Speaker 4


    1.  Ladies do not start fights, but they can finish them

    2.  Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships. - Barbara Bush

    3.  Hope springs eternal in the human breast. - Alexander Pope

  5. Speaker 5


    1.  The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. - Rosa Parks

    2.  Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

    3.  Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort. - Fred Rogers

  6. Speaker 6


    1.  Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. - Benjamin Franklin

    2.  Governments never learn. Only people learn. - Milton Friedman

    3.  The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. - James Madison

  7. Speaker 7


    1.  Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today. - Abraham Lincoln

    2.  The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. - James Madison

    3.  Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect. - Fred Rogers

  8. Speaker 8


    1.  Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

    2.  There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. - Andrew Carnegie

    3.  I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience. - Barbra Streisand

  9. Speaker 9


    1.  We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest. - John Adams

    2.  Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

    3.  Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. - Aldous Huxley

  10. Speaker 10


    1.  The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. - Alexander Graham Bell

    2.  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

    3.  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