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 the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.

– Lena Horne

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Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

– Japanese proverb

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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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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

– Jonathan Safran Foer

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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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

–  Thomas Carlyle

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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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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

– Maya Angelou

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We know what we are, but not what we may be.

– William Shakespeare

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

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