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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Piglet: “How do you spell love?” Pooh: “You don’t spell it, you feel it.”

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Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

– Robert Brault

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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

– Albert Einstein

Don-Miguel-Ruiz on love

Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love.

– Don Miguel Ruiz

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

– Thomas Edison

Socrates on wonder and wisdom

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

-Socrates

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.

-Morris West

Teilhard de Chardin

We are not human beings on having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

– Anatole France

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

– Publilius Syrus

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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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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

– Oprah Winfrey

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If you are a hammer, everything is a nail.

– Abraham Maslow

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The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

– C.G. Jung

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He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

– Chinese proverb

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Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not.

– David Airey

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

– Publilius Syrus

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Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be happy the thorn bush has roses.

– Proverb

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