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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.

Adam Braun

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.
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Day Existence Important Legacy Life One Story
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 Education Enabling Necessary Need Planet Resource
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 Enterprise Passion Reality Social True
Speak the language of the person you want to become.
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Create Language Making Person Speak Time Want
You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.
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Losing Prospect Realize Realizing Something Value
Make sure you make it a story you’re proud to have others tell.
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Make Motivation Creativity Other Proud Story Success Sure Tell
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education.
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Building Bussiness Donor Mean Office Space School Successful Surprise
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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Familiar Fear Leaving Natural Overcome Surrounding Unfamiliar
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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Commitment Community Education Local Need Own
Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts
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Act Big Dream Small Start Unreasonable
I realized that even big waves start with small ripples
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Big Bigger Even Realize Ripple Wave
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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Boardroom Come Conference Distinguished Level Lot Off Present
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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Attainment Educational Enjoy Family Grandparent Parent Virtue
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement’s voice.
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Action Become Momentum Movement Small Start Voice Weight
A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
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Desire Dream Heartfelt Idea Pencil Possibility Promise Simple World
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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Entrepreneur Global Myself Non-Profit Person Think Thinking Wanted
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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Done Element Experience Life Powerful
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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Answered Anything Boy Luckily Pencil Pocket Street World
It can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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Beauty Future Music Poetry Sketch Transcendent Untold Uplifting
True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.
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Begin Comfort Discovery Life Self Zone
Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest
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Beating Chest People Person Revolution
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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Change Compass Easiest Failing might Understood Way
In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.
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Always Clash Guided Moment Perceived Priorities Value
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.
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Bracelet Long People Taken Trip Wear
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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Band Brand Celebrity Critically List Major Over Pick
Think about it – most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values – hope and change.
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Around Campaign Country Election People Political Think Value Vote
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
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Challenge Creating Easy Last Something

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