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.

The road to success is always under construction.

– Lily Tomlin

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

– Yogi Berra

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

– Sheldon Kopp

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

– George Eliot

What the mind dwells on, the mind becomes.

– Buddhist proverb

A mind that has been stretched will never return to its original dimension.

– Albert Einstein

He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise.

– Lao tzu

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

– The Dalai Lama

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

– Charles Schulz

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

– Robert A. Heinlein

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If you hate your work, leave. If you hate your hate, leave that too.

– Buddhist proverb

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It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

– John Wooden

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

– Joseph Campbell

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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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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

– Sun Tzu

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