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.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

– Matsuo Bashō

Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not.

– David Airey

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

– Thomas Edison

May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.

– Irish blessing

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

– Oscar WIlde

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

– Mark Twain

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

– William Shakespeare

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

– Ralph Marston

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

– Albert Einstein

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?

– C.S. Lewis

Life is the sum of all your choices.

– Albert Camus

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

– Mark Twain

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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

– Albert Einstein

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All is flux, nothing stays still.

– Heraclitus

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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

– Lao Tzu

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A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

– Chinese proverb

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The unfed mind devours itself.

– Gore Vidal

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination.

– Emily Dickinson

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