Creative Thinking Gifts

"Never, ever, think outside the box."

Think Tank

"How come you never give me ideas like that?"

'Frankly, I'm not sure this whole idea-sharing thing is working.'

"Actually, I got some pretty good ideas when I was in the box."

'Now that's the kind of 'outside the box' thinking I've been talking about.'

Problem Solving: Man rows desert island to land.

Shortcut out of maze.

Thought too far outside the box.

What Bob thought outside the box.

'Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?'

Clever visual metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought and memory.

"Why?"

'we need to do some out of the box thinking.'

"I have to start thinking out of the box."

Copyrighted Ideas

Office worker is crushed by a think balloon. Co-worker says: 'I feel bad because I was always telling him to think big.'

"May I offer a very different scenario?"

Lost and Profound.

'It's getting a bit stale, Jack. You need to think outside the box.'

'It's weird, I know, but he does come up with some of our best ideas that way.'

"So, it's agreed then - we'll sleep on it and decide in the morning."

'Mom forgot to do the laundry last night, so I made clothes out of Legos.'

'We're looking for new, original thinkers...people who can think 'outside the box'...'

"Of course it's square! It would roll away if it wasn't!"

'How can I think outside the box when I work in one?'

Thinking Cap (a hat in the form of a brain).

'Well, my Cecil always loved to think 'out-the-box'.'

Illogic Tree

Free Thinking.

Empty box of ideas

'We have to go back to thinking 'inside' the box.'

"I'm sorry—did you say something? I was off creating my own reality."

"I can't think in here."

Hot air ballon, but with the ballon replaced by a thought bubble.