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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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination encircles the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

– Albert Einstein

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

– Helen Keller

If you want something you've never had, then you need to do something you've never done.

If you want something you’ve never had, then you need to do something you’ve never done.

– Thomas Jefferson

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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

– Vince Lombardi

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

C.S. Lewis on Hardships

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

– C.S. Lewis

Courage does not always roar

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quite voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’

– Mary Anne Radmacher

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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.

– Dr. Seuss

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

 – Ernest Hemingway

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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart has it’s reasons of which reason knows nothing.

– Blaise Pascal

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

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All we are given is possibilities – to make ourselves one thing or another.

– José Ortega y Gasset

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One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

– Paulo Coelho

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

– Walt Disney

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Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

– Aesop

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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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Your best work is your expression of yourself. You may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you’re the only expert in it.

– Frank Gehry

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

– Plutarch

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