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.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

– Marcel Proust

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.

– Robert A. Heinlein

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

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

– Charles Schulz

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

– Michelangelo

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

– Rumi

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

– Mark Twain

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

– The Buddha

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

– Socrates

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

– Bertrand Russell

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

– Annie Lamott

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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

– Edgar Watson Howe

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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?

– C.S. Lewis

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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the actions.

– Confucius

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

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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In this earth, in this soil, in this pure field, let us not plant any seeds other than seeds of love and compassion.

– Rumi

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

– William Shakespeare

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