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 designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

– Japanese proverb

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

– Jonathan Safran Foer

You travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

– Albert Schweitzer

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

– Albert Einstein

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

– John Quincy Adams

With our thoughts, we make the world.

– The Buddha

The unfed mind devours itself.

– Gore Vidal

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

– David Airey

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

– Albert Einstein

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It is through the happy sharing of your treasures that you show other people that they are treasured.

– Neale Donald Walsch

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

– Vince Lombardi

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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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There are no uninteresting things; only uninterested people.

– G.K. Chesterton

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You travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

– Rumi

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Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

– Wayne Dyer

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

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

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