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.

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

– Heraclitus

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

– E.B. White

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

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

– Albert Einstein

Nothing endures but change.

– Heraclitus

Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning.

– Buddhist proverb

The temple of love is not love itself. True love is the treasure, not the walls around it.

– Rumi

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

– Will Rogers

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

– Elbert Hubbard

If you hate your work, leave. If you hate your hate, leave that too.

– Buddhist proverb

Some of us think that holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

– Hermann Hesse

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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. 

– Muhammad Ali

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Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

– Anna Lappe

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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

– Lao Tzu

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

– Marcus Aurelius

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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

– Roger A. Caras

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