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.

We cannot cure the world of sorrows but we can choose to live in joy.

We cannot cure the world of sorrows but we can choose to live in joy.

– Joseph Campbell

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

– Thomas Edison

Albert Einstein on how everything is a miracle

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

– Albert Einstein

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I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.

– Harun Yahya

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

-African proverb

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

– Joseph Campbell


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

– Dr. Seuss

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

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It’s only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

– The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

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

– Sheldon Kopp

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Life is a cycle, always in motion, if good times have moved on so will times of trouble.

– Indian proverb

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

– William Shakespeare

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Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

– Publilius Syrus

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The best way to predict the future is to create it.

– Peter Drucker

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Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

– Robert Frost

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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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If you are a hammer, everything is a nail.

– Abraham Maslow

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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

– Jack London

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