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.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

– Herodotus

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

– C.G. Jung

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

– Winston Churchill

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

– Albert Einstein

It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.

– J.K. Rowling

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

-The Buddha

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

– Émile Zola

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

– Neale Donald Walsch

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

– Roger A. Caras

The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination.

– Emily Dickinson

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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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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

– Benjamin Franklin

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

– Leo Tolstoy

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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

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A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress extremely well.

– Unknown

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I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.

– C.G. Jung

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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

– Thomas Edison

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

– Francis Bacon

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