Think Outside The Box Quotes

• 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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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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• 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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• Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Opportunity, Thinking

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• It's easier to think outside the box if you don't draw one around yourself.

  Jason Kravitz

  Creativity, Thinking, Easier

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

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Needs, Fixing

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

  Banksy

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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

  Dror Benshetrit

  Mean, Thinking, Discipline

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Boxes, Understood

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  A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

  William James

  Motivational, Inspiring, Attitude

  "American Treasury, 1455 - 1955". Book by Clifton Fadimany, 1455 - 1955, 1955.

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

  MC Paul Barman

  Thinking, Boxes, Ifs

  Song: Excuse You, Album: Paullelujah!

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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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• 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, Realising

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• 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

  Thinking, Risk, Way

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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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• You have to think outside the box.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, Boxes, Outside The Box

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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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• 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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• 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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• I mean, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, I think the young kids sell lot of records. But for an older kind of artist, more of a sort of heritage, vintage type of artist, you have to think outside the box.

  Boy George

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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