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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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination encircles the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

– Albert Einstein

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

– Helen Keller

If you want something you've never had, then you need to do something you've never done.

If you want something you’ve never had, then you need to do something you’ve never done.

– Thomas Jefferson

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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

– Vince Lombardi

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

C.S. Lewis on Hardships

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

– C.S. Lewis

Courage does not always roar

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quite voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’

– Mary Anne Radmacher

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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.

– Dr. Seuss

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

 – Ernest Hemingway

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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning never exhausts the mind.

– Leonardo da Vinci

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In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

– Sheldon Kopp

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If you are a hammer, everything is a nail.

– Abraham Maslow

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Life isn’t about making your day, it’s about making someone else’s.

– Sarah Marshall

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Don’t overlook life’s small joys while searching for the big ones.

– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

– Oscar WIlde

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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

– Oprah Winfrey

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To know what you know and to know what you don’t know, that is real wisdom.

– Confucius

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

– The Buddha

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Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

– Aesop

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