Adam Braun Quotes

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Make your life a story worth telling.

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Stories

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

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Discovery, Self, Comfort

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts

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Dream, Bigs, Unreasonable

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

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Children, Needs, Enabling

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Speak the language of the person you want to become.

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Want, Language, Speak

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important thing you’ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived. Make sure you make it a story you’re proud to have others tell.

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Important, One Day, Legacy

"Adam Braun: How He Started Pencils of Promise". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.forbes.com. March 18, 2014.

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Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.

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People, Leaving, Who We Are

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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

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Inspiring, Uplifting, Art

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For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

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Momentum, Movement, Gains

"The Importance of #IamMalala on November 10th" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2012.

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In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

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Two, Light, Path

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

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Creating, Challenges, Lasts

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.

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People, Different, Surround Yourself

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

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Dream, Boys, Journey

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The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.

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Powerful, Elements, Done

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.

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I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

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Wave, Bigs, Ripple

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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Tourists see, and travelers seek.

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Tourists, Traveler

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Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

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Fighting, Twenties, Way

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.

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Dream, Passion, Reality

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Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

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Stories, Excited, Should

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.

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Children, Quality, Earth

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

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Would Be, Proud, Two Paths

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You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.

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Losing, Realizing, Values

Adam Braun (2014). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.

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Thinking, Magic, World

Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

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Passion, Collaboration, United States

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