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.

Believe those who are seeking truth. Doubt those who found it.

– Andre Gide

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

– Aristotle

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

– Rabbi Hillel

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence.

– Zen saying

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

– Charles Swindoll

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

– Thomas Edison

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

– Albert Szent Gyorgyi

All is flux, nothing stays still.

– Heraclitus

Your best work is your expression of yourself. You may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you’re the only expert in it.

– Frank Gehry

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

– Mahatma Gandhi

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

– Oscar Wilde

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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

– Winston Churchill

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May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.

– Irish blessing

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

– Alice Walker

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

– Arnold H. Glasgow

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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

— Albert Einstein

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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

– Mark Twain

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All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

– Walt Disney

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

– Peter Drucker

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