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.

Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.

– Arthur Ashe

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

– Oscar Wilde

There are no uninteresting things; only uninterested people.

– G.K. Chesterton

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

– Jim Henson

You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.

– Harry S. Truman

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

– Theodore Roosevelt

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is what happens to you while you’re making other plans.

– Allen Saunders

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

– C.G. Jung

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

– Mark Twain

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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will out burn the pain.

– Joseph Campbell

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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new.

– Dan Millman

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

– Pablo Picasso

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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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The sharpness of the sword is not in the edge of the blade, but in the hand of the warrior.

– Martin Aquino

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We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.

– Robert Brault

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Don’t overlook life’s small joys while searching for the big ones.

– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing. 

– Socrates

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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

– Herodotus

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