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 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

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

– African proverb

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

– Swedish proverb

When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

– Mark Twain

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

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

– Martin Heidegger

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

– The Buddha

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We do not remember days, we remember moments.

 – Cesare Pavese

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No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

– Brendan Francis

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There are no uninteresting things; only uninterested people.

– G.K. Chesterton

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

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

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The bigger the front, the bigger the back.

– Zen saying

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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

– Heraclitus

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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

– Warren Buffett

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