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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• 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

  Football, Technique, Shooting

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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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• 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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• 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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• Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is thought we all hate the box for being too dumb, too boring, and we want to escape it. If we do escape, by buying the advertised product, we usually find ourselves inside another dumb box populated by boring people just like us. It is clearly possible to live an extraordinary life inside a dumb box. Question: is it possible to lead an extraordinary life in anything other than a dumb box?

  Lebbeus Woods

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box

  Bobby Charlton

  Soccer, Decision, Boxes

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• By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Smart, Book, College

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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

  MC Paul Barman

  Thinking, Boxes, Think Outside The Box

  Song: Excuse You, Album: Paullelujah!

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• 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

  Believe, Thinking, Earth

  Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, about.usc.edu. May 15, 2009.

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

  Kyle Chandler

  Challenges, Pique, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Girl, Thinking, Perfect

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• 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

  Thinking, Squares, Frustrated

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.

  Alain Vigneault

  Attitude, Real, Hockey

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• The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

  Martin Cooper

  Life, Thinking, Creating

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