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.

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

– The Dalai Lama

The sharpness of the sword is not in the edge of the blade, but in the hand of the warrior.

– Martin Aquino

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

– Sun Tzu

If you obey all the rules, you will miss all the fun.

– Katherine Hepburn

I don’t put off to tomorrow doing what I must do, right now, to find out what my secret self needs, wants, desires with all its heart.

– Ray Bradbury

An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

You may delay, but time will not.

– Benjamin Franklin

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

– Thomas Edison

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

– William Butler Yeats

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

– Marcus Aurelius

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

– I Federman

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Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.

– Mahatma Gandhi

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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

– Pablo Picasso

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

– Japanese proverb

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The bigger the front, the bigger the back.

– Zen saying

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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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Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

– Peter Drucker

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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

– Roger Ward Babson

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