J. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts
Round - 1:00 PM
Speaker 1
Wings
Rabbit
Shirt
Speaker 2
Castle
Cane
Girl
Speaker 3
Bat
Pyramid
Island
Speaker 4
Photographer
Turkey
Watch
Speaker 5
Jacket
Clock
Bus stop
Speaker 6
Grandmother
Air
Piano
Speaker 7
Sweater
Zoo
Detective
Round - 3:00 PM
Speaker 1
Talent
Beauty
Customer service
Speaker 2
Joy
Pride
omen
Speaker 3
redemption
Loneliness
sadness
Speaker 4
Dictatorship
Right
Generosity
Speaker 5
Shock
Fragility
Relaxation
Speaker 6
Silliness
Infancy
Despair
Speaker 7
humility
Disbelief
Company
Round- 4:30 PM
Speaker 1
Once bitten twice shy
He who burns down his house knows why ashes cost a fortune. --African proverb
To kill two birds with one stone
Speaker 2
Long absent, soon forgotten.
A workman never blames his tools.
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths. --African Proverb
Speaker 3
Too many cooks spoil the broth
All good things come to an end
There are more ways than one to skin a cat.
Speaker 4
After victory, tighten your helmet chord.
Home is where the heart is.
Good bargains empty the purse.
Speaker 5
May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live. --Irish proverb
The highest branch is not the safest roost.
Tomorrow belongs to people who prepare for it today. --African Proverb
Speaker 6
Out of sight, out of mind
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. --Chinese Proverb
Speaker 7
Forgetting a debt doesn’t mean it’s paid. --Irish proverb
The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune. --Irish proverb
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Round - 9:30 AM
Speaker 1
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. --Dr. Seuss
Always let your conscience be your guide --Pinocchio
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. --Bruce Lee
Speaker 2
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. --Louisa M. Alcott (Little Women)
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. --Albert Einstein
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. --Winston Churchill
Speaker 3
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. --Nelson Mandela
Lost Time is never found again --Benjamin Franklin
"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” --— Jean de La Fontaine
Speaker 4
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. --Jesse Jackson
When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old. --Bill Clinton
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 5
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. --Abraham Lincoln
I am not a committee. --Princess Leia, The Empire Strikes Back
Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others. --Bar Refaeli
Speaker 6
Just Do It --Nike
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. --Amy Tan
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. --General Dwight Eisenhower
Speaker 7
Fighting hate should be fun. It’s being a hater that sucks. --Loretta J. Ross
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and snap, the job's a game --Mary Poppins
"The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning-bug.” --— Mark Twain
Round - 1:00 PM
Speaker 1
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. --Andy Warhol
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. --Warren Buffett
"Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.” --— Errol Flynn
Speaker 2
In my experience, there’s no such thing as luck. --Obi-Wan Kenobi, A New Hope
In this bright future you can't forget your past. --Bob Marley
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. --Steve Jobs
Speaker 3
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. --David Ben-Gurion
"And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.” --— William J.H. Boetcker
"A man with no enemies is a man with no character.” --— Paul Newman
Speaker 4
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. --Aldous Huxley
The only way to have a friend is to be one --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Speaker 5
Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere --Ratatouille
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. --Brian Tracy
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. --Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)
Speaker 6
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. --Rosalynn Carter
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
Hunger is the best pickle. --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 7
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. --Auguste Rodin
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. --Stephen Covey
This cannot be a team of common men because common men go nowhere. You have to be uncommon --Miracle