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.

Man does not simply exist but decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

– Viktor Frankl

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

– Oprah Winfrey

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

– Joseph Campbell

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

– Lucille Ball

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

– Benjamin Franklin

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

– Lao Tzu

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

– Lao Tzu

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

– Socrates

What you resist persists.

– C.G. Jung

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

– Warren Buffett

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If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

– Jack Dixon

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There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

– Wayne Dyer

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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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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.

– Zen proverb

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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

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Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

– Pema Chodron

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

– Kazuo Ishiguro

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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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