Thinking Outside the Box Quotes

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

A minority may be right. The majority is always wrong.

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Creativity takes courage.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

Imagination rules the world.

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.

We're impressed by people who don't know what can't be done.

Always listen to experts. They will tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

I don't like accepting things at face value.

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

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.