Outside The Box Quotes

• Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.

  Deepak Chopra

  Attitude, Thinking, Mindset

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2016

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

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• You have to think outside the box.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, Boxes, Think Outside The Box

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• Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

  Banksy

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Encouraging, Beautiful

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• 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

  Stupid, Creative, Venture

  Christopher Peterson (2012). “Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive Psychology”, p.277, Oxford University Press

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• The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.

  George Lucas

  Strong, Stars, War

  Source: movieweb.com

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• 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

  Creativity, Thinking, Fields

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• When something doesn't go exactly to plan, money is tight or a business is struggling - see it as a challenge rather than a failure. Look outside the box and try and find a solution - you'll be surprised how many great opportunities and possibilities arise when things look bad. You've just got to open your mind and not be afraid of sticking your neck out!

  Richard Branson

  Struggle, Opportunity, Challenges

  "Gentleman's Journal" Interview, www.thegentlemansjournal.com. December 10, 2012.

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

  Charles Handy

  Standing Out, Boxes

  Charles B. Handy (2003). “The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist”, p.109, Harvard Business Press

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• 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

  Queens, Laughter, Real

  "T Lo Interviews The One and Only RuPaul". tomandlorenzo.com. March 03, 2009.

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• I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

  will.i.am

  Thinking, Boxes, Think Outside The Box

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

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Funny, Life, Humorous

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.31, Random House

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• 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

  Thinking, Research, Fields

  "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin Can Help Cure Aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

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• 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

  Powerful, Simple, Thinking

  Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin (2012). “About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design”, p.121, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Grant Hill

  Basketball, Boxes

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• In terms of the production company, my brother and I are very drawn toward projects that do feel slightly outside the box. And at the same time are accessible enough that they could draw a slightly wider audience.

  Dave Franco

  Brother, Enough, Term

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Perfect, Mountain, Boxes

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• 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

  Dark, Done, Boxes

  Interview with Bryan Hutchinson, positivewriter.com.

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• The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories in a Psychology 101 textbook. In our inimitable singularity, there is an infinite range of possibility that cannot be tied to any one description of what it means to be human or healthy.

  David Richo

  Mean, Psychology, Healthy

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• 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

  Artist, Hip Hop, Want

  Interview with Jordan Sargent, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2012.

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• 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

  Jobs, Thinking, Apples

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• 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

  Thinking, Hollywood, Sense Of Humor

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 2, 2012.

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• 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

  Song, Looks, Band

  Source: collider.com

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