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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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

– Lao Tzu

Making the simple complicated

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

– Charlie Mingus

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You only lose what you cling to

– The Buddha

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.

– Norman Vincent Peale

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The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

– Tony Robbins

Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

– Aldous Huxley

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

– Virginia Wolf

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Every wall is a door.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.

– A.A. Milne

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

– Andre Gidé

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

– Pema Chodron

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What the mind dwells on, the mind becomes.

– Buddhist proverb

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

– Oscar Wilde

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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

– Robert A. Heinlein

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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

– Chinese proverb

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Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

– Frank A. Clark

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

– Charles Schulz

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He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

– Lao Tzu

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You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

– Richard Branson

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People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

– I Federman

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