Quotes About Multitasking

I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.

I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.

I'm a daddy and I'm a businessman also.

People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.

It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

I think about some of those parents and friends of mine who have to turn their kitchen tables into home offices and school rooms and juggle that, trying to teach their kids. That's pretty hard.

I read articles in the gym in the morning on a tablet or phone. Then I print out a stack of them that I carry around with me throughout the workday.

How many times have you been watching an episode of 'South Park' and thought, 'I'd like to be able to watch this on my television while hooked into my mobile device, which is being controlled by my tablet device which is hooked into my oven, all while sitting in the refrigerator?'

It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

I am not a person who loves to watch games and that doesn't mean I don't like soccer. I take advantage to do other things in my free time.

That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother's parenting style was, 'There's the TV. Go watch it. Mommy's got 10 other people to take care of.'

Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.

There is one major difference that has occurred in the past forty years that does indeed impinge upon the spiritual life. I can state it in one word: distraction. Distraction is the primary spiritual problem in contemporary culture.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

You must avoid at all cost the idea that you can manage learning several skills at a time. You need to develop your powers of concentration, and understand that trying to multitask will be the death of the process.

I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff.

Mr. Ray, you yelled at it again, didn't you? I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff.

I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.

It's harder than it looks to juggle all those things: relationship, movies, YouTube.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

The Bible does say, 'Pray without ceasing,' but I don't see where it says you have to stop working in order to pray. As a matter of fact, I believe that anybody who can walk and chew gum at the same time can work and pray at the same time."—ZIG ZIGLAR