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.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

– Josh Billings

Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.

– Carl Sagan

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

– Jim Rohn

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

– Chinese proverb

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

– Edgar Watson Howe

Strength shows, not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.

– Albert Einstein

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

– Hermann Hesse

A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress extremely well.

– Unknown

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

– Anna Lappe

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

– Henry Miller

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

– I Federman

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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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A mind that has been stretched will never return to its original dimension.

– Albert Einstein

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You must be the change you want to see in the world.

– Mahatma Gandhi

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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

-The Buddha

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

– Mark Twain

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Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.

– John N. Mitchell

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Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

– Peter Drucker

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

– Oscar WIlde

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