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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

– William James

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Everyone is wise until he speaks.

– Irish proverb

 

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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

– Vince Lombardi

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

– Vincent Van Gogh

Peanuts friendship

In life it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.

– Charles Schultz

It's hard to fly when something is weighing you down

It is hard to fly when something is weighing you down.

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

– Josh Billings

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Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

– Groucho Marx

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s learning to dance in the rain.

– Vivian Greene

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

– C.S. Lewis

The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination.

– Emily Dickinson

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

– George Bernard Shaw

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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

– Herodotus

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He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise.

– Lao tzu

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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

– Albert Einstein

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If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.

– Amy Tan

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What you resist persists.

– C.G. Jung

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

– Heraclitus

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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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The bigger the front, the bigger the back.

– Zen saying

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