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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We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

-Confucius

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

– Benjamin Franklin

 

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

– Winston Churchill

The more I learn about people the more I like my dog

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

– Mark Twain

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In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.

– Shunryu Suzuki

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Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

– Rumi

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

– Plato

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You can be the ripest, juiciest, peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

– Dita Van Teese

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Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

– Chinese proverb

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

– Rumi

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Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

– Aristotle

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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

– Socrates

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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will out burn the pain.

– Joseph Campbell

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If everything was perfect, it wouldn’t be.

– Yogi Berra

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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

– Rumi

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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

– Herodotus

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Man does not simply exist but decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

– Viktor Frankl

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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

– Eckhart Tolle

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An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

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