Adam Braun
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. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.

Alex Smith
Alex Smith

We can only control how we react and how we respond, and that complex but so simple idea helped me survive.

Anthony Fantano
Anthony Fantano

Lion Face Boy' is the first single from Seabear's sophomore album, 'We Built a Fire,' and it's a perfect display of the band's knack for constructing mountains of instrumentation on a simple idea.

Bill Drayton
Bill Drayton

We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.

Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen

I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.

David Lichtenstein
David Lichtenstein

People from all over the world want to be in New York. This rather simple idea took me a long time to learn.

David Lowery
David Lowery

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

Eric Liu
Eric Liu

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo

My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together.

Hattie Morahan
Hattie Morahan

I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.