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.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

– Vince Lombardi

Silence isn’t absence. It is complete presence.

– Karen Maezen Miller

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the actions.

– Confucius

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

– Epictetus

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

– Wayne Dyer

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

– William Shakespeare

Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.

– Mahatma Gandhi

The bigger the front, the bigger the back.

– Zen saying

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

– Pema Chodron

There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

– George Bernard Shaw

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If you obey all the rules, you will miss all the fun.

– Katherine Hepburn

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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.

– Zen 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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

– James Dean

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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 secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new.

– Dan Millman

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

– George Eliot

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

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

– Jonathan Safran Foer

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