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

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

– Pericles

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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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The future ain’t what it used to be.

– Yogi Berra

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Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

– Robert Frost

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

– George Eliot

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As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

– Eckhart Tolle

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If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.

– Amy Tan

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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

– Will Rogers

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Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

– Wilt Chamberlain

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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

– Peter Drucker

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