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

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

– Benjamin Franklin

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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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You may delay, but time will not.

– Benjamin Franklin

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

– Mark Twain

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Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

– Eckhart Tolle

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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

– Dale Carnegie

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

– Mark Twain

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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

– Rumi

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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

– Walt Disney

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

– Bertrand Russell

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