black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Adam Braun

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.
ADAM BRAUN

Creativity Dream Financial Grounded Made Pencil Simple Support
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.
ADAM BRAUN

Abutant Collaboration Country Nonprofit Passion Resource
It can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
ADAM BRAUN

Beauty Future Music Poetry Sketch Transcendent Untold Uplifting
When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you’re producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
ADAM BRAUN

Business Creating Good Office Producing Renting Space Staff Training
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations
ADAM BRAUN

Amazing Art Inspiring Pencil Poetry Transcendent Uplifting
A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
ADAM BRAUN

Desire Dream Heartfelt Idea Pencil Possibility Promise Simple World
You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.
ADAM BRAUN

Losing Prospect Realize Realizing Something Value
Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you’re destined to become.
ADAM BRAUN

Accept Both Destiny Fighting Person Time Twenties Way
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006
ADAM BRAUN

Asked Beginning Boy Dream Journey Pencil Single Traveling
The single most powerful element of youth is that you don’t have the life experiences to know what can’t be done.
ADAM BRAUN

Done Element Experience Life Powerful
Tourists see, and travelers seek.
ADAM BRAUN

Adventure Journey Passion See Seek Tourist Traveler
In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.
ADAM BRAUN

Always Clash Guided Moment Perceived Priorities Value
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.
ADAM BRAUN

Action Become Momentum Movement Small Start Voice Weight
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.
ADAM BRAUN

Answered Anything Boy Luckily Pencil Pocket Street World
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
ADAM BRAUN

Challenge Creating Easy Last Something
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.
ADAM BRAUN

Attainment Educational Enjoy Family Grandparent Parent Virtue

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adam Braun Quotes