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.

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

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will out burn the pain.

– Joseph Campbell

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

– Marcel Proust

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

Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

– Eckhart Tolle

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To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.

– Ken S. Keyes, Jr.

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Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning.

– Buddhist proverb

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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

– Lao Tzu

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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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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

– Robert Frost

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

– Henry Ford

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

– Pablo Picasso

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

– Leo Tolstoy

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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

– Benjamin Franklin

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