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.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In this earth, in this soil, in this pure field, let us not plant any seeds other than seeds of love and compassion.

– Rumi

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.

– William G.T. She’d

A leader is a dealer in hope.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

Learning never exhausts the mind.

– Leonardo da Vinci

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

– Soren Kierkegaard

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

– Robert Frost

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

– Socrates

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

– Oscar WIlde

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

– Oscar Wilde

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

— Albert Einstein

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The best way to predict the future is to create it.

– Peter Drucker

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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

– Robert Frost

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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

– Meister Eckhart

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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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Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

– Epictetus

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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.

– Søren Kierkegaard

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Don’t overlook life’s small joys while searching for the big ones.

– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

– Charles Schulz

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