Adam Braun Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Make your life a story worth telling,”
-- Adam BraunSource : "Adam Braun: How He Started Pencils of Promise". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.forbes.com. March 18, 2014.
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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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“Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts”
-- Adam BraunSource : 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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“For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.”
-- Adam BraunSource : "The Importance of #IamMalala on November 10th" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2012.
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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.”
-- Adam BraunSource : 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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“In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.”
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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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“Speak the language of the person you want to become.”
-- Adam BraunSource : 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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“In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.”
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“We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.”
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“I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.”
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“Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest”
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“I realized that even big waves start with small ripples”
-- Adam BraunSource : 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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“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.”
-- Adam BraunSource : 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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“Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.”
-- Adam BraunSource : 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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“Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.”
-- Adam BraunSource : 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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“Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.”
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“I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.”
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“I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.”
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“You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.”
-- Adam BraunSource : 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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“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”
-- Adam BraunSource : 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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“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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“The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.”
-- Adam BraunSource : 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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“True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.”
-- Adam BraunSource : 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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“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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“I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.”
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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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“A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.”
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“It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.”
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