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.

mandela_it always seems impossible

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

– Nelson Mandela

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

– Lao Tzu

Nietzsche_you have your way

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.

– Jack Kerouac

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

what matters most is how you see yourself

What matters most is how you see yourself.

Behold the turtle

Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.

– James Bryant Conant

Zen-saying_to know and not to do is not yet to know

To know and not to do is not yet to know.

– Zen saying

Emerson_Do Not Go

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Holstee Manifesto – This is your life. Do what you love and do it often. If you don’t like something, change it. If you don’t like your job, quit. If you don’t have enough time, stop watching TV. If you’re looking for the love of your life, stop; they’ll be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

– Oscar Wilde

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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

– Ralph Marston

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We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.

– Robert Brault

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It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

– John Wooden

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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

– Michelangelo

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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

– Winston Churchill

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Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

– Publilius Syrus

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.

– J.K. Rowling

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.

– Gilda Radner

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