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

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

– Oscar WIlde

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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

– Diogenes

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

– Rumi

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Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning.

– Buddhist proverb

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All is flux, nothing stays still.

– Heraclitus

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Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not.

– David Airey

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

– T.S. Eliot

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

– Maya Angelou

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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

– Rumi

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

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