Top 100 Quotes About Outside The Box
#1. I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
T.I.
#2. 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
#3. I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.
Will.i.am
#4. If you can think outside the box or you can think bigger than that, then that will keep you centered in this earth, in this planet. I think with me I always believed in God but after certain things happened to me that's when I knew without a doubt.
Ryan Montgomery
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big!
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. The concern shouldn't be whether you're "thinking outside the box," the focus should be actually "understanding the box that you're in" and especially its location!
Wes Adamson
#9. 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
#10. What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
Steve Jobs
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.
Malcolm Gladwell
#15. I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.
Ashton Kutcher
#16. If you *think* you think outside the box, you're trapped in one.
MC Paul Barman
#17. Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
Adam Savage
#18. I'm glad folks say That I think outside the box; that means I have more room for creativity
Darrius Garrett
#19. With directing, you always have three or four things constantly on the go. It's a tough industry and a tough time, particularly if you're doing things a little outside the box or independent features.
Stuart Townsend
#20. Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.
Deepak Chopra
#21. 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
#22. To me thinking outside the box means; crossing disciplines and pulling in expertise and perspective from outside of the standard boundaries.
Dror Benshetrit
#23. I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.
Alan Dapre
#24. 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
#25. You have to think outside the box! Can you imagine One Direction and Eminem?! That would be hilarious.
Niall Horan
#26. If you only think outside the box,you will always wonder what's inside. Keep your options open. Lorenzo Victory
Lorenzo Victory
#27. Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.
Banksy
#28. I woke today ready to think outside the box. I can't remember where I put it.
Neil Leckman
#29. 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
#30. I'd ask you to think outside the box on this, but it's obvious your box is broken. And has schizophrenia.
Ted Kosmatka
#31. It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
Tim Ferriss
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.
Dada Maravilha
#36. Now here's my idea about God. I think we're like the cat. I think that God is like the man outside the box. I think that if the cat believes in the man, the man is there. And if the cat is an atheist, there is no man." "Maybe there's a lady," Nico suggested helpfully. Frans
Mary Doria Russell
#37. 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
#38. I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.
Kyle Chandler
#39. You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.
Charles Handy
#40. The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.
Kendrick Lamar
#41. 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
#42. I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.
Nolan Bushnell
#43. Don't try to think outside the box- get outside the box, then think!
Adam Hartung
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.
Aubrey De Grey
#48. Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.
Douglas Preston
#49. Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way.
Charlie Trotter
#50. Gabriel Batistuta. He was a spectacular No 9 - great at finding space, shooting from outside the box, good in the air. He was always a reference for me and I used to watch the way he played.
Luis Suarez
#51. The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.
Andrew McCarthy
#52. Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.
Banksy
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.
Christopher Peterson
#56. I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.
Lilly Singh
#57. 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
#58. Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look at the books, thought outside the box and proposed reforms.
Mike Quigley
#59. I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.
Billy Bob Thornton
#60. Do the things that make perfect sense to you, [and] don't be afraid to shout it from the mountain tops just because it's outside the box or against the grain in your industry. More often than not, you're probably going to be right.
Mark Cuban
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett
#65. Its Better to Destroy the BOX than to Think outside the BOX.
Udayveer Singh
#66. There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.
Josh Charles
#67. In life be your own person, think outside the box, chase your dreams, then follow your own path undeterred by the naysayers who follow the herd.
Aaron Lauritsen
#68. Friendship scattered across the globe is an enriching exchange: A look outside the box to understand people and their different cultures.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#69. I think God calls and encourages us to dream big, but sometimes we put God in a box in a very small way, when God wants us to look outside the box.
Jodi Benson
#70. To be exotic, on the other hand, one had to think not just outside the box but outside the world of boxes.
David Sedaris
#71. Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!)
Maria Semple
#72. Every advancement in human history, every scientific discovery, every artistic masterpiece, every new idea has come from an individual looking at the world in a new way. Thinking outside the box. So tell me, Samantha, why are you trying so hard to put yourself inside the box?
Kate Scott
#74. Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.
Lakshmi Mittal
#75. You have to be prepared to think outside the box ... Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.
Geoffrey Canada
#76. You've got to think outside the box. If you can't, that's going to put you behind the power curve in a big way.
Joe Teti
#77. Business skills, when well applied, can do more than just make money. They can potentially make money and do some real good, which is immensely satisfying. To do that, it's important to think outside the box, take risks, and be an entrepreneur.
Jeffrey Skoll
#78. In life, think outside the box, chase your dreams, then follow your own path undeterred by those naysayers.
Aaron Lauritsen
#79. Don't think outside the box. Go box shopping. Keep trying on one after another until you find the one that catalyzes your thinking. A good box is like a lane marker on the highway. It's a constraint that liberates.
Dan Heath
#80. It's easier to think outside the box if you don't have one to begin with ...
Michael A. Hunt
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
#85. It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.
Bobby Charlton
#86. I plan to take thinking outside the box to a whole new level
Sahndra Fon Dufe
#88. It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.
Michael Braun
#89. 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
#90. The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.
Martin Cooper
#91. It's so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow.
Marie-Chantal Claire
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose.
T.D. Jakes
#95. Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.
Brian Schmidt
#96. Creativity isn't always about thinking outside the box, it's about looking around you and realizing there was never a box there in the first place.
Robert Michael Gallant
#97. I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.
Grant Hill
#98. 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
#99. I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.
Miranda Lambert
#100. As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.
Mary Sage Nguyen
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