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.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

– Rumi

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

– Dale Carnegie

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

– Walt Disney

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

– Stephen J. Covey

Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

– Wayne Dyer

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

– Jules Verne

Shut your eyes and see.

– James Joyce

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

– Rumi

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

– Walt Disney

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

– Kahlil Gibran

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

– Ken S. Keyes, Jr.

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

– Chinese proverb

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The road to success is always under construction.

– Lily Tomlin

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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

– Mark Twain

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– Eckhart Tolle

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I don’t put off to tomorrow doing what I must do, right now, to find out what my secret self needs, wants, desires with all its heart.

– Ray Bradbury

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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

 – Epictetus

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

– Wilt Chamberlain

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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

– Joseph Campbell

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