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

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

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

– Warren Buffett

An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

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Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not.

– David Airey

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If you seek to be understood by others, first seek to understand them.

– Stephen J. Covey

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

– Theodore Roosevelt

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

– Warren Buffett

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

– Stephen J. Covey

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To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?

– C.S. Lewis

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Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.

– John N. Mitchell

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

– Heraclitus

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