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

All we are given is possibilities – to make ourselves one thing or another.

– José Ortega y Gasset

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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

– Stephen J. Covey

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

– Marie Curie

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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

– Walt Disney

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Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal; it’s the courage to continue that counts.

– Mike Ditka

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There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

– Albert Einstein

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If you obey all the rules, you will miss all the fun.

– Katherine Hepburn

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It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

– William Shakespeare

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