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

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

– Thomas Edison

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I’ve always been very careful never to predict anything that has not already happened.

— Marshall McLuhan

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To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All is flux, nothing stays still.

– Heraclitus

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For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

– H.L. Mencken

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

– Japanese proverb

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If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

– Will Rogers

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

– Martin Aquino

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

– William Butler Yeats

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