Quotes About Multitasking

I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

At Bristol I found it quite difficult to continue trying to balance three things - teaching, research and public engagement, for which television was obviously the most prominent part.

I started in 1989. I was the booker, the promoter, the headliner. I wore all the hats.

I haven't taken a break after marriage. Just two days after my marriage, I was in Chandigarh promoting my Punjabi film.

Most gyms now have TVs. You can prop up reading material on the cardio equipment.

If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

If I just said, 'I'm a helicopter pilot and a federal prosecutor' they might think I've served my country, I'm experienced. If I say, 'And I'm a mom,' they think I get it. 'She's a working mom. That's tough.'

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These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.

With directing, you always have three or four things constantly on the go. It's a tough industry and a tough time, particularly if you're doing things a little outside the box or independent features.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.

I like to have a few things going on at once. It feels natural.

My last year of football I started having a couple of MMA fights, and bringing the weight down. It started in the pre-season of football, just to keep fit, and I did really well.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I can very much relate to being on the road and filming and trying to train. It's a whole different ball game.

It's difficult, it's a fine line when you're a mother and a career woman because that's what we do, we do it all.