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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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

– Albert Einstein

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Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.

– Pema Chödrön

“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.”



When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.

– Chinese Proverb

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

-Milton Berle

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

 

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

– Audrey Hepburn

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

– Mark Twain

"What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi

What you seek is seeking you.

-Rumi

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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life – it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

– Henry Ford

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You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

– Wayne Gretzky

 

It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.

– Jean-Luc Godard

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

– Eckhart Tolle

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We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

– C.G. Jung

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There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.

– Steve Goodier

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If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

– Albert Einstein

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No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

– Brendan Francis

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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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