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

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

– Albert Einstein

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Philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; what matters is to change it.

– Martin Heidegger

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It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.

– Lena Horne

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Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.

– Carl Sagan

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

– Blaise Pascal

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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

– Oprah Winfrey

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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

– Eckhart Tolle

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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

– Socrates

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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

– Émile Zola

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