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:… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
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. — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge. — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
“Expectations are the daunting shadows that trail behind accomplishments; no matter how high one goes, the other follows on its footsteps.” — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become. — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
“Purpose is found when you stop thinking about how you exist in the world and start trying to figure out why you are here.… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
“Dancing with these kids, I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you. There is… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“At the greatest levels of affluence, and the deepest levels of poverty, parents share the same desire for their children to have a better… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you just know. With absolute conviction. The complete absence of doubt is so rare it generates a sense of excitement that’s so powerful… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
“Here's my best advice: make the little decisions with your head and the big ones with your heart. Do that, and you'll be just… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
