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.

30 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Can Change Your Life

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

 

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

– George Bernard Shaw

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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

– George Santayana

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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

– Pericles

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

– John Quincy Adams

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Nothing endures but change.

– Heraclitus

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If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

– Jack Dixon

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Be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.

– Charles Dickens

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

– Oscar Wilde

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Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

– Eckhart Tolle

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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

– Thomas Jefferson

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