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.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

– Diogenes

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

– George Bernard Shaw

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

– Chinese proverb

A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

– Sensei Ogui

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

– Wilt Chamberlain

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

– The Buddha

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

– Lao Tzu

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

– Will Rogers

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

– The Buddha

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

– Socrates

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Live simply so that others may simply live.

– Mahatma Gandhi

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What you resist persists.

– C.G. Jung

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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

– Pericles

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

– The Buddha

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In every crisis lies the seed of opportunity.

– Chinese proverb

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If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

– Bruce Lee

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The Buddha says that we are not punished for our anger, we are punished by our anger. In other words, anger is its own karma.

– Eknath Easwaran

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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

– Albert Einstein

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

– Publilius Syrus

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