Outside Of The Box Quotes

#1. Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

Deana Carter

#2. Intelligence helps you think inside of the box.
Creativity helps you think outside of the box.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. Creativity has often been analogized as "Thinking outside of the box.

Pearl Zhu

#4. I want to do parts that are outside of the box.

Rutina Wesley

#5. Thinking outside of the box allows you to get rewards outside of your reach.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Science is actually, I think, a very creative venture. It requires thinking outside of the box. It requires an ability to be open to new experiences and an ability to change course in the middle, try a different path, or go about things in a new way.

Cara Santa Maria

#7. I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!

Tyler Perry

#8. It's not about thinking outside of the box. It's about realizing there is no box.

Jari Askins

#9. Condoms aren't a hundred percent you know," he reminds me calmly. My mind flashes to a certain episode of Friends, and I suddenly feel like yelling out that they should put that on the outside of the box.

Chantal Fernando

#10. You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you're with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that's encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co-star.

Charlize Theron

#11. I feel like people grow the most when they step outside of the box that they are used to. For me, it's constantly challenging myself to step outside of my comfort zone. As soon as you do that, then you grow, but then you get comfortable again.

Sanaa Lathan

#12. You always want to see people who are just like a little outside of the box. Maybe making mistakes sometimes. Not taking something that's straight off the runway, but mixing and matching things. Old and new.

Jacob Hashimoto

#13. Kids are real artists. They'd rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside.

Shawn Lukas

#14. Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.

Orlando Bloom

#15. Jedi are always assessing situations, actions and possibilities. Jedi don't just think outside of the box with the help from the Force, they also adapt to situations outside of the box!

Stephen Richards

#16. Shaul is sure that Israel's test of survival, daily undergone, is the secret of Israeli enterprise. When you're concerned about your survival, every day, you think outside of the box

George Gilder

#17. She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age. They couldn't understand her or her imagination. She was always thinking outside of the box, breaking rules, and only following what her heart told her was right.

Shannon A. Thompson

#18. I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years later, but I was just very strong-willed and strong-minded and had my own idea - thought outside of the box.

Jaime Pressly

#19. A lot of improvisation ends up being about just thinking outside of the box in the scene. It's not improvisation as much as it is quickness or making it real.

Jason Sudeikis

#20. To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

Madonna Ciccone

#21. I want to live outside of the box, and I definitely don't want to put God in a box, so I want to be able to dream big and kind of let that go of my small-mindedness.

Jodi Benson

#22. As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

RuPaul

#23. What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

Courteney Cox

#24. This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.

Neil Young

#25. Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.

Lionel Suggs

#26. I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

Angela Kinsey

#27. If everyone else just goes outside of the box like they are told to, where do I go? Just back to the inside of the box?
I don't think so.

Amelia Mapstone

#28. I just want to inspire others to think outside of the box and accomplish their dreams.

Edgar Alan Cole

#29. If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

Wayne Rogers

#30. f you don't think outside of the box, you may just get stuck inside of a cubicle.

Eric Vance Walton

#31. You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.

Aaron Paul

#32. A high-performing digital mind can think logically, but outside of the box as well.

Pearl Zhu

#33. I want to do things that are very outside of the box, and I want to do movies that no one else can do. If someone else can make the movie that I'm making, then I shouldn't do it.

Darren Lynn Bousman

#34. Tangling with the Goliath Corporation generally left you in one of two places: inside a wooden box with a grieving family outside, or inside a wooden box under six foot of soil with family wondering where you were. The former was if they didn't hold a grudge.

Jasper Fforde

#35. With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding band Wisdom

John De Ruiter

#36. All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else.

J.R. Ward

#37. I had always been told that you shouldn't clean the litter box when you're pregnant, because of your cat. And I think that is overblown - unless you have, like, three kittens in your house that are living outside and eating raw meat, this shouldn't really be a significant source of concern.

Emily Oster

#38. I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Terry Pratchett

#39. I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

James Franco

#40. If we are to maximize the potential of young girls everywhere, we have to think, in this instance, literally outside the box. And the first step of doing that is to see the box for what it really is: A perfect, pretty PROBLEM.

David Trumble

#41. You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

Chuck D

#42. We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack.

John Ashcroft

#43. Milena found Cilia outside, holding her bamboo box. Milena hugged her. 'I'm sorry about your shins,' she said. Milena lifted the lid of the box, and saw it, the precious paper, ruled in staves. People were generous. Milena had never believed that.

Geoff Ryman

#44. If you're struggling to "think outside the box" remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

Ryan Lilly

#45. I think the biggest problem with drum and bass is that people don't like to collaborate, and so from very early on I have made a point of stepping outside the box and working with as many people as I can.

DJ Rap

#46. Originals by Adam Grant is one of the best books I've read on how to be more creative at work and how to think outside the box, sell your ideas, and make a difference. 10.YOUR CREATIVE LIFE. The War of Art by Steven

Vishen Lakhiani

#47. The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

Andrew McCarthy

#48. To be exotic, on the other hand, one had to think not just outside the box but outside the world of boxes.

David Sedaris

#49. And you are more than the mistakes of your youth. You are more than the label you've been assigned by people who might love you, but don't really know who you are anymore.

Penny Reid

#50. I always thought I'd look corny in the type of rap video in the club with girls and all that type of stuff. I just didn't think I could really pull that off. We always think it's more fun and better just to go outside the box and to use our videos to show cool concepts.

Mac Miller

#51. amortized? Put differently, the vast majority of individuals, including wealthy individuals and families, find it hard to think outside the box and consider the possibilities being discussed here.

Thomas J. Anderson

#52. Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#53. It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.

Michael Braun

#54. Well, it just goes to show you," the inventor said as he flipped through the pages of notes and ideas, "It is easy to think outside the box when you aren't smart enough to know where the box is.

Joseph R. Lallo

#55. Parents sat gloomy and still, like rows of turnips in a grocer's box. Their little criminals sat with them, tapping LOLs on their phones, or milled in the yard outside stinking of Lynx and taut nonchalance. Solicitors strode in and out in a twist of slacks and briefcases.

Lisa McInerney

#56. When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.

James Wan

#57. We have to understand that the closer you get to the corridors of power, to the Oval Office and Congress, the more you become a prisoner of the past .The closer you get to the marginalized, the grassroots and the groundlings, the greater your incentive to think imaginatively and 'outside the box.

Team Colors Collective

#58. I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!

Jose Mujica

#59. I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

Grant Hill

#60. A word Gorgeous is much sexier than a word Beautiful

Rahul

#61. Go too far outside "the box," of course, and you will encounter a vernacular that is much less "tolerant." Here, the key words are "fanatic," "troublemaker," "misfit" or "malcontent.

Christopher Hitchens

#62. Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.

Banksy

#63. The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!

Seth Godin

#64. When you're in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can't think outside the box.

Diedrich Bader

#65. A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.

Alan Cooper

#66. Marvel and Disney and all the other superhero movies have to stay within this box and this is an opportunity to jump outside that box. To be the apple among oranges, and really embrace it. So, in terms of us getting what we wanted and what we originally wrote, we largely stayed consistent to that.

Paul Wernick

#67. I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.

John McAfee

#68. Being web video 'experts'/'pioneers,' whatever you may want to call us, has us always thinking about content that is outside the box, inherently viral in itself and good for web video audiences, as you can't just put out a good piece of content and expect it to be seen.

Benny Fine

#69. Think out of the box but stay in the yard.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#70. This is a mindset that I have tried to instill in my security officials and military officers: don't just be overwhelmed by prognosis of threats, be consumed with exploring new opportunities. Don't be stuck with convention; think outside the box. Don't just look to the past; create the future.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

#71. I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

Barry Humphries

#72. Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.

Deepak Chopra

#73. If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.

Karin Slaughter

#74. I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

Lawrence Anthony

#75. To me thinking outside the box means; crossing disciplines and pulling in expertise and perspective from outside of the standard boundaries.

Dror Benshetrit

#76. None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#77. When you do men's wear, it's less about thinking outside the box than about pushing the walls of the box outward. Men want to be evolutionary, not revolutionary.

John Varvatos

#78. Our ability to discover new experiences exists outside of who we are in the Box.

Heidi Reagan

#79. The last season of 'Rescue Me' is going to be very sort of half and half: it's how you think 'Rescue Me' would end versus something very outside the box. And, they do it in this sort of perfect way - it's only nine episodes, you know. Very stream-lined.

Callie Thorne

#80. Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

T.D. Jakes

#81. I hate this expression, but - "thinking outside the box," in terms of how to market and put a Broadway show out into the - allow it to reach the target audience, who can't necessarily spend $120 to come see it.

Katherine Shindle

#82. I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.

Jack White

#83. I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.

Vera Wang

#84. In the earlier days I did most of the song writing by myself, and I got to a place in my life where I felt it was necessary to go outside my box and get some outside inspiration.

Jason Wade

#85. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. It is the world outside that box that gives me trouble. I have adapted tamely, though not conventionally, to this visible world so I can retreat without much inconvenience into my inner world of books. (p. 5)

Rabih Alameddine

#86. [M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

John Locke

#87. Outside the box is an overused cliche which goes nowhere near far enough. In fact, there are so many politicians and salesmen thinking outside the box these days that I am convinced that all of their boxes are completely empty!

Lance Greenfield

#88. It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#89. I find myself maybe just pushing myself to create characters that are a little outside the box, and if that sort of gets the critics talking, then I can take it.

Elisha Cuthbert