thinking-outside-the-box

Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that.

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

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.

Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.

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

It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.

Another big group of dolphins had just surfaced alongside our moving vessel__eaping 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__lose. 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__f there is such__s unknowable. Permissible questions are __t_ questions: where it lives; what it eats; what it does when danger threatens; how it breeds. But always forbidden__lways forbidden__s the one question that might open the door: __ho?_ _ Carl Safina