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.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

– Peter Drucker

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

– Anatole France

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

– Confucius

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

– Pablo Picasso

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

– Bertrand Russell

To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

– William Shakespeare

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

– George Bernard Shaw

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

– Richard Branson

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

– Albert Einstein

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Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?

– C.S. Lewis

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

– Walt Disney

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You travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

– Leo Tolstoy

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

– Émile Zola

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Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.

– John N. Mitchell

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All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

– Walt Disney

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

– Unknown

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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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