Quotes About Multitasking

Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.

I read several books at once.

I try to do as much as I can, but I simply can't shoot two films at a time.

I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.

I used to bring my books to the shoot and used to study in between the shots.

Women are strong. We have babies. We do it all.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

It's nice in that I have my track life and I have my school life, and so far I've been balancing them really well.

I've got to have 25 balls in the air at the same time.

I've tried my very best to keep all the balls in the air and be home.

When I need to go to my bank, I'll do television.

I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

Olga Rudge told a story about Wanda Landowska, the renowned harpsichordist. Landowska had been interrupted in mid-sentence by the arrival of friends and a fuss about tickets, and had come back after a quarter of an hour and continued her sentence from where she left off. 'Is it the working with different voices in the fugues etc. makes her able to keep all the threads in her hand separate and distinct?', Olga wondered, 'like in a way the cantos?

Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.

We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.

I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.

There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.

I go through periods where I feel very confident about stuff but other periods that are insecure... I find doing different stuff removes the responsibility of focussing on one thing.