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

Adam Braun

You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.
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Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it’s empowering generations to come.
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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.
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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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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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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
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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We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.
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For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.
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Action Any Event Gain Momentum Movement Small Start
I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.
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Acknowledged Around Exist Looked Proof Within Yourself
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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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
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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Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.
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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006
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Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.
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Advice Allow Cannot never No Somebody Speak Take Yes
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.
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Make your life a story worth telling.
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Create Journey Life Make Story Success Telling Worth
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
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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Different Enable Different People Presence Smarter Surround Yourself
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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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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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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I realized that even big waves start with small ripples
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Big Bigger Even Realize Ripple Wave
In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.
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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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Happen Life Live Proud Two Path Uncertainty
Make sure you make it a story you’re proud to have others tell.
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