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.

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

– Arthur Conan Doyle

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

– Mark Twain

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

– Thomas Jefferson

It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

– John Wooden

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

– Bruce Lee

All we are given is possibilities – to make ourselves one thing or another.

– José Ortega y Gasset

If you seek to be understood by others, first seek to understand them.

– Stephen J. Covey

We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.

– Robert Brault

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

– Zen proverb

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

– The Dalai Lama

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Nothing endures but change.

– Heraclitus

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The unfed mind devours itself.

– Gore Vidal

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Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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We are the landscape of all we have seen.

– Isamu Noguchi

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

– Katherine Hepburn

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

— Albert Einstein

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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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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