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. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

Simon Baker

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I am the sharpest pencil because I live outside the box.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#14. 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

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

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#16. 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

#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. If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Malcolm Gladwell

#19. 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

#20. If you *think* you think outside the box, you're trapped in one.

MC Paul Barman

#21. 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

#22. I'm glad folks say That I think outside the box; that means I have more room for creativity

Darrius Garrett

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Deepak Chopra

#26. 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

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

Madonna Ciccone

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Dror Benshetrit

#32. I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.

Alan Dapre

#33. 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

#34. You have to think outside the box! Can you imagine One Direction and Eminem?! That would be hilarious.

Niall Horan

#35. If you only think outside the box,you will always wonder what's inside. Keep your options open. Lorenzo Victory

Lorenzo Victory

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

Banksy

#37. I woke today ready to think outside the box. I can't remember where I put it.

Neil Leckman

#38. 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

#39. I'd ask you to think outside the box on this, but it's obvious your box is broken. And has schizophrenia.

Ted Kosmatka

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

Courteney Cox

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

Heidi Reagan

#42. It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

Tim Ferriss

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

Kyle Chandler

#55. You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Charles Handy

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. [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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.

Jim Bakker

#63. We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

Doris Lessing

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

Edgar Alan Cole

#65. 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

#66. In the spaces between space itself, in the timeless region outside time, a blue box spins

Mark Clapham

#67. Don't try to think outside the box- get outside the box, then think!

Adam Hartung

#68. 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

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

Wayne Rogers

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. Don't think outside the box. Think like there is no box.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#73. I box a lot, I spin and I surf. I try to mix it up. I obviously have to be in shape 24 hours and the gym can be super monotonous, so I just get outside and try to make it fun so my body doesn't get bored.

Marisa Miller

#74. Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.

Douglas Preston

#75. Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.

Demetri Martin

#76. 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

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

Eric Vance Walton

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

Darnell Lamont Walker

#79. 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

#80. They say to think within the box, but it's funny how those in the box never go anywhere, where those outside it, get to see the world.

Anthony Liccione

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

Andrew McCarthy

#82. Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.

Banksy

#83. 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

#84. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

Lilly Singh

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.

Billy Bob Thornton

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. People, places and experiences aren't meant to be labeled and judged, they are meant to be loved and appreciated, since deep down inside, the nature we all share is love, light and happiness.

Luminita D. Saviuc