Top 100 Quotes About Out Of The Box
#1. Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure).
Elizabeth Gilbert
#2. Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.
Greg Kinnear
#3. I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.
Lissie
#4. I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.
Alicia Keys
#5. Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different ... to think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson
#6. Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box.
Daniel Woodrell
#7. The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.
Vir Das
#8. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.
Paul Rudnick
#9. All of the devices work out of the box without any subscription fee.
David Rose
#10. Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.
Wietse Venema
#12. Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!
Terence McKenna
#13. 'Out of the box' corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box.
Tina Brown
#14. Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.
Cheryl James
#15. A part is always too limited to explain the whole. You might picture a worldview as trying to stuff the entire universe into a box. Invariably, something will stick out of the box. Its categories are too "small" to explain the world.
Nancy Pearcey
#16. Let's order cheap Chinese and eat it out of the box with chopsticks."
"Let's order good Chinese and do that.
Sylvia Day
#17. So often I speak of "out of the box thinking" and living a "conscious life"; however, not regularly do I meet someone who lives such a life. What an inspiration (and challenge) to see someone who really lives in the now, who looks forward and dares to stop when thoughts turn to pain from the past!
Paula Heller Garland
#18. I'm not someone who is scared of doing things out of the box.
Kirsten Dunst
#19. We all need to begin thinking out of the box.
Peter Piot
#20. 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
#21. I've been offered all the reality TV shows but have turned them down. If I did it as 'Johnny,' there'd be no jungle left! It was really hard regaining control of myself, so I am reluctant to let 'Johnny' back out of the box.
Johnny Vegas
#22. To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.
Brian Setzer
#23. I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.
Richard Simmons
#24. The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas, who are trying to disrupt the status quo, and usher in a better way. We need to think out of the box, and be curious, and be willing to take risks.
Steve Case
#25. If you want out of the box you hide in, then you need to crack open the flaps and bask in some sunlight.
Katie McGarry
#26. If you're more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.
Donald A. Norman
#27. They gave Pandora a box. Prometheus begged her not to open it. She opened it. Every evil to which human flesh is heir came out of it.
The last thing to come out of the box was hope. It flew away.
Kurt Vonnegut
#28. When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.
Christian Louboutin
#29. I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.
Oprah Winfrey
#30. I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.
Morgan Freeman
#31. 'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.
Nick Harkaway
#32. Faith takes God out of the box; understanding tries to put Him back in! EL
Evinda Lepins
#33. Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.
Ciputra
#34. If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.
Angelina Jolie
#35. amanda lifted a large handful of pictures out of the box and dropped them into her lap, flicking through them as they fall. they told a thousand stories, didn't they? the pictures of your life. but they left a lot out, too.
Elizabeth Noble
#36. When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with.
Phil Schiller
#37. I think anybody who tries to follow the conventional Hollywood rule, will probably be better liked than the ones who try to think a little bit out of the box.
Bruno Zheng Wu
#38. As actors, we have that in common that we go for slightly out-of-the-box or genre stuff. They're great when they work, but they don't always work. Genre stuff is really hard to pull off, as any fans of it know.
Jason O'Mara
#39. It's okay to feel the need for protection if there is a real external threat. But to feel protective from the inside, it's a kind of jail: you get so protective that you cannot get out of the box.
Tariq Ramadan
#40. Thinking out of the box means you are in a continuous learning mode.
Pearl Zhu
#41. The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.
Jonah Lehrer
#42. I always felt as if I'd been handed a cardboard box crammed full of monkeys. I'd take the monkeys out of the box one at a time, carefully brush off the dust, give them a pat on the bottom, and send them scurrying off into the fields. I never knew where they went from there.
Haruki Murakami
#43. Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
Twyla Tharp
#44. A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.
Ron Jaworski
#45. When people accuse us of being retrograde, or medieval, or puritanical - all words rummaged out of the box labeled "Not Progressive" - we should shrug, as if they had accused us of walking on two feet, and
Anthony Esolen
#46. I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.
J. B. Smoove
#47. You went shopping with Rebecca?'
'Yep,' I said, pulling the shoes out of the box.
His brows went to the heavens.
'Wow, those are like ... Jenn shoes.'
'These are not hooker shoes,' I said defensively.
'Well played,' he said.
Karina Halle
#48. I am really committed to my faith journey, and I am committed to my family. My husband and I have been married for almost 30 years, and we homeschool our kids. We have a different working-out-of the-box family, but we do make it work, obviously with God's grace, and we are very grateful for that.
Jodi Benson
#49. I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!
Kelli O'Hara
#51. He took the necklace out of the box and carefully fastened it around her neck. Just like he'd imagined himself doing when he bought it. That might even be why he bought it - so he'd have this moment, under her hair. He ran his fingertips along the chain and settled the pendant on her throat.
Rainbow Rowell
#52. The knife is is much sharper out of the box as it is in. And It's these knives which pretend more often than not.
Marc Duncan
#53. Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all.
Cassie Scerbo
#54. I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures ... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.
Les Claypool
#55. Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you've ever had in your life.
Richard Hatch
#56. Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
David Fincher
#57. I ripped a tissue out of the box as if it had personally offended me, which it did. Fucking tissue.
C.D. Reiss
#58. Offbeat questions are nearly impossible to prepare for, and they don't achieve the interviewer's objective - to test out-of-the-box thinking and the ability to perform under pressure. That's the bad news. The good news is that companies are moving away from them.
Travis Bradberry
#59. I think that the one thing about 'Parenthood' is that, while it's never been a huge out-of-the-box hit, it's always been solid. We've always kept our audience.
Jason Katims
#60. The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.
Paul Gibbons
#61. We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months for any radio to happen on the first record, so a lot more support has happened right out of the box.
Jon Crosby
#62. I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.'
Noah Baumbach
#63. I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
Ice Cube
#64. Keep believing in yourself, and don't ever give up, even if people tell you otherwise. Just believe in yourself and take every action you need to get there, whether it's taking more lessons or a fun, cool job in New York or LA and stepping out of the box. Be a little bit risky, but still confident.
Julianne Hough
#65. What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson
#66. Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.
Rick Springfield
#67. If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.
Phil Collins
#68. The idea of using extraordinary force does not mean more of the same effort. Extraordinary action results from out-of-the-box thinking.
Gerald A. Michaelson
#69. I like [that] there's a certain inherent drama to those jobs that is exciting to tell stories about and it's still real life. I'm a little less interested in the current fad of being obsessed with superheroes and things that are so out of the box.
Ethan Hawke
#70. I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
Lakshmi Pratury
#71. You should step out of the box more often. See what the world has to offer."
"I stepped out of the box the night I broke the statue, and look where that got me."
"Exactly! You had a chance to get to know me as a result. Talk about lucky. Think what could happen if you tried again.
Eileen Cook
#72. If you want an out-of-the-box event, you need to bring the idea out of the box.
Rehan Waris
#73. Remember, Christmas is always best when you take it out of the box.
Sierra Donovan
#74. Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.
Robert Redford
#75. Nobody does animation better than Disney; it's just that some of us wanted out of the box. Burton was one. I was another. We were the mutual complaint society.
Henry Selick
#76. Have you ever seen a six-month-old or a three-year-old who's not curious and self-directed? I haven't. That's how we are out of the box.
Daniel H. Pink
#77. We will make our products work out of the box.
Steve Ballmer
#78. I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.
Henry Rollins
#79. There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.
Sunny Leone
#80. I buy a lot of electronics, some which I never take out of the box!
Ratan Tata
#81. The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played guitar or trumpet. The pictures I want to draw I do with this crayon I chose, which is the bass.
Les Claypool
#82. Come out of the Box. Extend your hand towards other and bring more meanings to your life.
Amit Ray
#83. I tap a Malediction out of the box, fire it up, and puff. It tastes like a tire fire in a candy factory next door to a strip club. The best cigarettes ever.
Richard Kadrey
#84. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.
From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)
Jonah Lehrer
#85. To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.
Phil Anselmo
#86. You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.
Roy Romer
#87. If Jenny were a book, she would be a paperback just out of the box - no dog ears, no waterlogging, no creases in her spine.
Gabrielle Zevin
#88. I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.
Avicii
#89. Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
Roland Joffe
#90. The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.
James Galway
#91. You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.
Kate McGahan
#92. Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box.
Toba Beta
#93. So, it's pretty crazy. Look, we're bailing out Wall Street, we're bailing out banks, we're bailing out car companies. In fact, did you know there's a special box on your tax form this year you can check if you want a portion of your taxes to actually go to running the government?
Jay Leno
#94. When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.
Denzel Washington
#95. Syd's strafing run at Florennes had been a feat of strafing skill. His cine-gun footage of the radar van was perfect. It showed radar operators diving out both sides of the brown box on wheels. Instead of congratulations, the Station Commander awarded him a $25 fine and a formal reproof.
R.J. Childerhose
#96. Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it ... ok ... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.
Henry Rollins
#97. The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
Ian MacKaye
#98. I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
Jeff Bezos
#99. All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.
Muddy Waters
#100. 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
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