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.

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

– John N. Mitchell

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

Change alone is unchanging.

– Heraclitus

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.

– Arnold H. Glasgow

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

– H.L. Mencken

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

– Albert Einstein

There’s no such thing as work-life balance. It’s all life. Be fully present in life.

– Jon Kabat-Zinn

The best way to make dreams come true is to wake up.

– Mae Jemison

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

– Soren Kierkegaard

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

– Plutarch

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

– Mahatma Gandhi

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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

– Confucius

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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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Be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.

– Charles Dickens

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Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

– Eckhart Tolle

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

– Thomas Edison

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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