A. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1: 8:00am

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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