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

It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.

– Jean-Luc Godard

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

– Albert Einstein

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Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.

– The Dalai Lama

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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

– Benjamin Franklin

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The bigger the front, the bigger the back.

– Zen saying

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Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.

– Arnold H. Glasgow

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

– Chinese proverb

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The best way to predict the future is to create it.

– Peter Drucker

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

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Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

– Epictetus

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