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.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.

– Greek proverb

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.

– Amy Tan

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

– James Dean

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

– Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

– Mahatma Gandhi

The heart has it’s reasons of which reason knows nothing.

– Blaise Pascal

One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

– Paulo Coelho

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

– Ashley Montagu

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

– John Lennon

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.

– Gilda Radner

Shut your eyes and see.

– James Joyce

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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

– Anatole France

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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.

– Zen proverb

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

– Albert Einstein

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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

– C.G. Jung

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Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.

– Carl Sagan

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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

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

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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

– Lao tzu

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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

– George Santayana

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