C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1
Speaker 1
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. --Aldous Huxley
Destiny helps people believe there's an order to this horseshit. --Geralt of Rivia
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. --Lao TzuSpeaker 2
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. --Christian Nestell Bovee
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. --Ayn Rand
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. --Erma BombeckSpeaker 3
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt. --Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. --Margaret Mead
Hope is a waking dream. --AristotleSpeaker 4
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. --Benjamin Franklin
I always just want to move along to the next step. --Ben Silbermann
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.Speaker 5
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. --Alexis de Tocqueville
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. --Benjamin Franklin
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships. --Barbara BushSpeaker 6
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. --Aldous Huxley
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. --Albert Einstein
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. --BuddhaSpeaker 7
Sometimes you try your hardest, but things don't work out the way you want them to --Lilo & Stitch
“I hope we never find life on another planet because if we do there's no doubt that the United States will start sending them money!” --— Donald Trump
"All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education." --— Frédéric Bastiat
Round 2
Speaker 1
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. --Alexander Graham Bell
Be independent of the good opinion of other people. --Maslow
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --Ralph Waldo EmersonSpeaker 2
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. --Bob Marley
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. --Benjamin Franklin
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. --Albert EinsteinSpeaker 3
The North remembers. --House Stark
I'm happiest with my family around me. --Amy Winehouse
“I’m intellectually lazy. […] If you’re anything like me, you don’t make up your mind about important issues by doing original research, poring over primary sources and coming to your own conclusions; you listen to people who claim to know what they’re talking about—“experts”—and try to determine which of them more credible.” --— Tim KreiderSpeaker 4
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.” --— Orville Wright
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. --Andrew Carnegie
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. --Mahatma GandhiSpeaker 5
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. --Abraham Lincoln
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. --Albert EinsteinSpeaker 6
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. --Daniel J Boorstin
Independence is happiness.
"Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” --—George WashingtonSpeaker 7
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
The First Order wins by making people think they are alone. We’re not alone. Good people will fight if we lead them.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Round 3
Speaker 1
A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength but by the strength of his heart --Hercules
I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence. --DeRay Mckesson
“There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.” --— Steven SoderberghSpeaker 2
Though she be but little, she is fierce. --William Shakespeare
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership is influence. --John C. MaxwellSpeaker 3
“Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.” --— Frédéric Bastiat
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. --Alice Walker
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Speaker 4
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. --Alexander Graham Bell
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
“The right to vote has no impact. You can change the future of a nation more by how you raise one child.” --— GK ChestertonSpeaker 5
Rule No. 1: never lose money; rule No. 2: don’t forget rule No. 1
Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swim all over you
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.Speaker 6
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” --— George Orwell, 1984
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be --Maslow
I am not a committee.Speaker 7
“I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy." --— Ayn Rand
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. --Bell Hooks
There's a part of all of us that longs to know that even what's weakest about us is still redeemable and can ultimately count for something good. --Fred Rogers