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

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

– Heraclitus

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If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

– Jim Rohn

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

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We know what we are, but not what we may be.

– William Shakespeare

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You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.

– Albert Einstein

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Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

– Albert Einstein

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I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

– Annie Lamott

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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

– Sun Tzu

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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

– Michelangelo

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The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.

– Samuel Butler

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