Young people are often asked, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives.
ADORA SVITAKOur inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something.
More Adora Svitak Quotes
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Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas.
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Success on the front of women’s rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances.
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Everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
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If I had my way, I’d end all wars and poverty.
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We all love people who give credit to others for their success.
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A real world that is increasingly technology-driven.
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Since the age of four, I’ve been exploring what I can do with the written word.
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My family joke that I’m really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
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The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.
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To show that you truly care, you listen.
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Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn’t keep them from popping.
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We often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.
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Not just for me, but for everyone.
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I realise I’m still a child, though I do feel older.
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No matter what size you are, it still isn’t good enough.
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Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step.
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If school is preparation for the real world.
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Rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.
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No matter your position or place in life.
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It is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.
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The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make ‘big miracles’ happen.
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Discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.
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Then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
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You must lend an ear today, because we are the leaders of tomorrow
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Whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today’s girls.
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But I think it’s very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.
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