Thinking Outside The Box Quotes

“You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.”
― Ryan Lilly

“Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan... Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself ― not to Japan, not to anything. You may think that what you're doing is for the sake of the nation, but let something take possession of you like that, and all you do is bring it down.”
― Sōseki Natsume, Sanshirō

“Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.”
― Ryan Lilly

“The gambler who adheres to the rules of the Casino in their gambling endeavors will always succumb to defeat at the hands of the Casino.”
― Isaiah Senones

“/You’ve been presented with a rare opportunity that,at the moment,remains unresolved. But why is the unknown a burden? It doesn’t have to be. It can just as easily be the opposite - a kind of awakening to feel something. I don’t just mean the Installation. Even before that. This is a chance to be taken out of your daily, weekly, monthly, yearly routine, regardless of the final outcome. Again . . . /This is for both of you. It’s a chance to wake up. How many people live day to day in a kind of haze, moving from one thing to the next without ever feeling anything? Being busy without ever being absorbed or excited or renewed? Most people don’t ever think about the full range of achievable existence; they just don’t./”
― Iain Reid, Foe

“Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes

“Certainty is the calm before the storm.”
― Stewart Stafford

“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

“Another big group of dolphins had just surfaced alongside our moving vessel—leaping and splashing and calling mysteriously back and forth in their squeally, whistly way, with many babies swift alongside their mothers. And this time, confined to just the surface of such deep and lovely lives, I was becoming unsatisfied. I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so—close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Science usually steers firmly from questions about the inner lives of animals. Surely they have inner lives of some sort. But like a child who is admonished that what they really want to ask is impolite, a young scientist is taught that the animal mind—if there is such—is unknowable. Permissible questions are “it” questions: where it lives; what it eats; what it does when danger threatens; how it breeds. But always forbidden—always forbidden—is the one question that might open the door: “Who?” — Carl Safina”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

“It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.”
― Michael Braun

“If you can’t learn to imagine, then I can’t imagine you’ll learn.”
― Mango Wodzak, Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy

“Sometimes thinking outside of the box can be the difference between life and death.”
― Stephanie Arnold

“Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.”
― Victor Shamas

“Corners are not where you want to be in a box.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I think it comes as no surprise, Miss Lucas, that your time at Strictland must come to an end," the headmaster said. "According to Miss Thornbury's account, you terrorized your fellow classmates before setting the entire gymnasium on fire . . ."
"It was only the banners," Vin mumbled. Not because she had held back at all; they just happened to be the most flammable.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents