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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
I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people. -- Miranda Lambert
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. -- Terry Pratchett
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
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
You have to think outside the box. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box. -- Deepak Chopra
Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be. -- Lakshmi Mittal
The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box. -- Andrew McCarthy
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it. -- Banksy
If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It's so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow. -- Marie-Chantal Claire
I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me. -- Kyle Chandler
I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me. -- Grant Hill
It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box. -- Tim Ferriss
You have to think outside the box! Can you imagine One Direction and Eminem?! That would be hilarious. -- Niall Horan
Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box. -- Douglas Preston
It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box. -- Bobby Charlton
Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much. -- Brian Schmidt
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you *think* you think outside the box, you're trapped in one. -- MC Paul Barman
It's easier to think outside the box if you don't draw one around yourself. -- Jason Kravits
You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed. -- Charles Handy
Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it. -- Banksy
I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit. -- Billy Bob Thornton
It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box -- Bobby Charlton
The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place. -- Martin Cooper
The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one. -- Ryan Lilly
To me thinking outside the box means; crossing disciplines and pulling in expertise and perspective from outside of the standard boundaries. -- Dror Benshetrit
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pessimistic people will constantly try to discourage you; they get pleasure from your failures because they don't have the balls to live outside the box and go after what they really want. -- Kaiylah Muhammad
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
Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your own unique brand, without apology. -- Shannon L. Alder
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We should all feel confident in our intelligence. 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
I want to do parts that are outside of the box. -- Rutina Wesley
In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it. -- Simon Baker
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
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
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
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
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
I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.' -- Lupe Fiasco
Failure is an inescapable part of life and a critically important part of any successful life. We learn to walk by falling, to talk by babbling, to shoot a basket by missing, and to color the inside of a square by scribbling outside the box. Those who intensely fear failing end up falling short of their potential. We either learn to fail or we fail to learn. -- Tal Ben-Shahar
It's not about thinking outside of the box. It's about realizing there is no box. -- Jari Askins
To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment. -- Madonna Ciccone
I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge. -- Britt Robertson
I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one! -- Tyler Perry
What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box. -- Courteney Cox
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
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
Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that's kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period. -- Temple Grandin
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
Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful. -- Bruce Willis

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