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.

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

– Jack Dixon

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

– Eckhart Tolle

Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.

– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.

– C.G. Jung

You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

– Navajo proverb

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life.

– Anais Nin

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

– Thich Nhat Hanh

Much learning does not teach understanding.

– Heraclitus

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

– Publilius Syrus

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

– Chinese proverb

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

– Bruce Lee

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

– Peter Drucker

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Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

– Arnold H. Glasow

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First hold peace within yourself, only then can you bring it to others.

– Thomas à Kempis

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

– Socrates

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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

– Aristotle

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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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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

– Robert Frost

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He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise.

– Lao tzu

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