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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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

– The Dalai Lama

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We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

– Albert Einstein

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Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

– Ashleigh Brilliant

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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely.

– Roald Dahl

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

– Samuel Beckett

Change your thoughts and you change your world

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

– Norman Vincent Peale

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

– Helen Keller

Some see a weed

Some see a weed, some see a wish.

– Proverb

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Sometimes, said Pooh, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

– A.A. Milne

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The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

– Amelia Earhart

Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

– Albert Einstein

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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.

– Marcus Aurelius

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Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

– Jim Henson

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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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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

– George Bernard Shaw

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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

– Thomas Edison

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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

– Oscar Wilde

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In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

– Sheldon Kopp

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

– Lucille Ball

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