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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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

– Albert Einstein

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Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.

– Pema Chödrön

“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.”



When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.

– Chinese Proverb

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

-Milton Berle

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

 

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

– Audrey Hepburn

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

– Mark Twain

"What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi

What you seek is seeking you.

-Rumi

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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life – it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

– Henry Ford

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You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

– Wayne Gretzky

 

I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

– Annie Lamott

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I’ve always been very careful never to predict anything that has not already happened.

— Marshall McLuhan

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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

– Thomas Edison

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Life is the sum of all your choices.

– Albert Camus

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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

– Yogi Berra

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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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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

– Theodore Roosevelt

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

– Soren Kierkegaard

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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination.

– Emily Dickinson

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

– Albert Einstein

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