A. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1: 8:00am
Speaker 1
1. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” -Mark Twain
2. “Beauty is whatever gives joy.” -Edna St. Vincent millay
3. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer.” -Harriet Tubman
Speaker 2
1. “Start each day with a grateful heart.” -Unknown
2. “Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”-Walt Whitman
3. “All things are bound together, all things connect.” -Chief Seattle
Speaker 3
1. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” -Plato
2. “If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.” -Native American proverb
3. “Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” -Mark Twain
Speaker 4
1. “Fortune favors the brave.” Latin proverb
2. “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.” -Rumi
3. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” -Confucius
Speaker 5
1. “Let your smile be a beam of light from your soul.” -Unknown
2. “The secret to being happy is making most of the little moments.” -Unknown
3. “Do anything, but let it produce joy.” -Walt Whitman
Speaker 6
1. “What feels like the end if often the beginning.” -Unknown
2. “The beginning is always today.” -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3. “Don’t call it a dream, call it a plan.” -Unknown
Round 2: 11:00am
Speaker 1
1. “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” -Jane Austen
2. “Leap, and the net will appear.” -John Burroughs
3. “Dreams demand hustle.” -Unknown
Speaker 2
1. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” Louisa May Alcott
2. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” -Emily Dickinson
3. “Learn the rules so you can break them.” -Unknown
Speaker 3
1. “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” -William Blake
2. “The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” -Thomas Edison
3. “Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” -William Wadsworth
Speaker 4
1. “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
2. “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.” -Sigmund Freud
3. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” -George Sand
Speaker 5
1. “Stars can’t shine without darkness.” -Unknown
2. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. “There is nothing permanent except change.” -Heraclitus
Speaker 6
1. “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”-Indira Gandhi
2. “Learning never exhausts the mind.”-Leonardo da Vinci
3. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” -Edgar Allan Poe
Round 3: 12:45pm
Speaker 1
1. “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” -Margaret Mead
2. “Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” -Plato
3. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” -Robert H. Schuller
Speaker 2
1. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” -Plutarch
2. “We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
3. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” -William Shakespeare
Speaker 3
1. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau
2. “A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world.” -Leo Buscaglia
3. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” -Soren Kierkegaard
Speaker 4
1. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” -Socrates
2. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” -Confucius
3. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” -Dr. Seuss
Speaker 5
1. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”-Robert Frost
2. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” -Loretta Young
3. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
Speaker 6
1. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” -Aristotle
2. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but but the seeds you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
3. “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” -Joseph Campbell
Finals: 5:00pm
Speaker 1
1. “I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.” -Steve Jobs
2. “When making a fire people like to join you, when cleaning the ashes you are often alone.” -African proverb
3. “You can’t take the milk back from the coffee.” -Jamaican proverb
Speaker 2
1. “No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.” -P.T. Barnum
2. “Day has its eyes, night has its ears.” -Japanese proverb
3. “A letter from the heart can be read on the face.”-Swahili proverb
Speaker 3
1. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” -Oprah Winfrey
2. “Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile.” -Jewish proverb
3. “If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.” -Korean proverb
Speaker 4
1. “Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.” -Chinese proverb
2. “I never lose. Either I win or I learn.”-Unknown
3. “Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.” -German proverb
Speaker 5
1. “You can’t have two faces under one hat.” -Jamaican proverb
2. “Be grateful when things are going your way. Be graceful when they’re not.” -Unknown
3. “A child without education is like a bird without wings.” -Tibetan proverb
Speaker 6
1. “A gentle word opens an iron gate.” -Bulgarian proverb
2. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” -Buddha
3. “He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.” -Danish proverb
Speaker 7
1. “Give a blind man eyes and he will ask for eyebrows.” -Georgian proverb
2. “A dog will always be a dog, even if he is raised by lions.” -Lebanese proverb
3. “People don’t change with time. People change with choice.” -Unknown