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.

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

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

– The Buddha

Shut your eyes and see.

– James Joyce

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

– Rumi

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

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

– Aristotle

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

– Publilius Syrus

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

– Pema Chodron

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Philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; what matters is to change it.

– Martin Heidegger

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

– Oscar Wilde

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I’ve always been very careful never to predict anything that has not already happened.

— Marshall McLuhan

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

– Maya Angelou

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Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.

– Steve Goodier

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

– Aristotle

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

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

– Lin Yutang

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