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

A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress extremely well.

– Unknown

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Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.

– Albert Einstein

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Life is what happens to you while you’re making other plans.

– Allen Saunders

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

– Brendan Francis

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You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

– Navajo proverb

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An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

– Thomas Edison

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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

– Benjamin Franklin

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

– T.S. Eliot

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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

– Rumi

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