Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Adora Svitak - Page 2

To show that you truly care, you listen.

Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.

There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.

I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible.'

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, 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.

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.

If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.

Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.

Our words can have power that we don't think we have in everyday life - anyone can make a difference.

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.