implementation gap Quotes

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.