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.

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

– Jimmy Dean

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

– I Federman

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

– Warren Buffett

To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.

– Ken S. Keyes, Jr.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

– Peter Drucker

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.

– Isaac Asimov

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

– Albert Schweitzer

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

– Peter Drucker

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

– Lin Yutang

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

– Meister Eckhart

If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

– Joseph Campbell

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It is through the happy sharing of your treasures that you show other people that they are treasured.

– Neale Donald Walsch

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Silence isn’t absence. It is complete presence.

– Karen Maezen Miller

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

– Walt Disney

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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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I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

– Jimmy Dean

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He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

– Chinese proverb

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You travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

– Diogenes

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