I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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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.
If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.
Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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