The blog of unnecessary quotation marks http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/ is on a mission to spot and report quotes abuse. Posters and commenters on the blog often wonder what the quote user really meant. [P&H popcorn is "proudly" served here. Evidently it is sold with or without pride.]
Thinking becomes "thinking" when it goes in circles. Founders of a start up meet regularly to do the heavy mental lifting needed to get their enterprise off the ground - to get to the starting line. Their meetings are circular. Participants chew up valuable time reviewing what is already known or diving into tactical minutiae. Inevitably, talk returns to the subject's beginning and reviewed all over again. It's circular. Thinking is replaced by "thinking". Progress stalls and the starting line disappears into the future. Unbending the circle into a straight line moves things forward.
Those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things. --Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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