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.

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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

– Chinese proverb

Oscar Wilde-Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

Be yourself, everyone else is taken.

– Oscar Wilde

let-it-go

Don’t ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go.

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The best therapist has fur and four legs

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

– The Buddha

[QUOTE] "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

– Dorothy Parker

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Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

-Dale Carnegie

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

– Chinese proverb

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A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

– Sensei Ogui

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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

– Joseph Campbell

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People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

– I Federman

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Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

– Frank A. Clark

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Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

– Eckhart Tolle

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

– John Quincy Adams

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Change alone is unchanging.

– Heraclitus

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