What inspires? What sparks creation?

There are as many answers to this as there are ideas. Leading clients through the ideation process is one of the several services we provide at Dawn. Often we use quotes to spark a discussion. We seek out quotes where the writer skillfully uses words to express and illuminate an idea in a powerful or provocative way. You’ll find some of our favorites here, including ones that have the power to alter a mindset. If you’re looking for a favorite author or a particular subject, use our search function to find these quotes from the illuminating nuggets we’ve collected.

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Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.

– Rumi

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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

– Carlos Castaneda

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When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

– The Buddha

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell

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Where life plants you, bloom with grace.

– French proverb

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

– Dr. Seuss

Time is a created thing

Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’

– Lao Tzu

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.

– Thomas Edison

The hawk with talons hides his talent

The hawk with talent hides his talons.

– Japanese proverb

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

– William Penn

Life isn’t about making your day, it’s about making someone else’s.

– Sarah Marshall

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

– Aristotle

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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

– Winston Churchill

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

– Mark Twain

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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the actions.

– Confucius

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I’ve always been very careful never to predict anything that has not already happened.

— Marshall McLuhan

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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

– Émile Zola

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

– George Eliot

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

– Marie Curie

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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

– African proverb

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