Quotes About Multitasking

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

Every day in every way, I'm getting busier. —ROBERT CIALDINI

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

Run with More Threads Than Processors Things happen when the system switches between tasks. To encourage task swapping, run with more threads than processors or cores. The more frequently your tasks swap, the more likely you'll encounter code that is missing a critical section or causes deadlock.

His mind, he decided, worked best when he had several different projects at hand, allowing him to build all kinds of connections between them.

But it is one of the tricks of the successful politician to be able to hold many things in mind at once and to switch between them as the need arises;

People who have to look after twins can't be expected to say their prayers. Now, do you honestly think they can?

ever managing to do it at the same time. You can't always do it at the same time, but you have to be able to sometimes. Because, ultimately, wasn't being good at it, together, the most important part?

I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.

I could only handle a zillion problems at a time. A zillion and one was beyond me.

Because we are superwomen. Because it's how we are. We're high, we're sleep deprived, and we're still doing all the shit. If my husband doesn't get his full eight hours, he'll mention it the whole next day, as if he spent the dark time keeping flesh-eating zombies from gaining entry to our house. Not middle-aged women. They get up from a bed they've never slept in, put on an underwire and some mascara, and do it all over again. And no one knows.

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

It's the feeling that time is to be used efficiently and productively. Even though, you know really, that means if you can balance three spinning plates on sticks, you're rewarded with a fourth, then a fifth." A

Working two part-time jobs and doing round-the-clock research was a snap compared to full-time motherhood," she said.

I never think at all when I write nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.

I am not superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I am juggling a lot of balls in the air? And sometimes some of the balls get dropped.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

I'm listening. I listen with my ears and look with my eyes. I can't do two things at once and really concentrate on them. Right now, I'm listening to your voice.

She probably doesn't think she can multitask well, but under pressure her bandwidth is enormous.

A manager must keep many balls in the air at the same time and shift his energy and attention to activities that will most increase the output of his organization. In other words, he should move to the point where his leverage will be the greatest.

People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.

While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye.

I started becoming an agent and producing before I retired. I was doing double-duty to get my feet wet.