Quotes About Multitasking

I am a very hyper person and always get pre-occupied with something.

Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan.

A dirty floor means a busy stove.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.

Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

I've never been the actor that's waiting for a job. I always have 15,000 other things going on.

I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

I couldn't even chew bubble gum and walk at the same time. I wasn't very coordinated.

I was a copy editor. I loved it. I love grammar. I'm obsessed. I was a bartender. I worked in a cafe. I was a dog walker. I was a babysitter. I was a tutor. Once I was asked to half-babysit, half-bartend.

My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower.

Balancing schoolwork and basketball was very, very hard, but a lot of benefits came along with it.

We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.

The biggest challenge is trying to be in two, or even three, places at once.

I have to look after my life, my kids, their school, their doctor, my house, my phone and electric bills.

My family realized I was going to do birth work and then music; they were like, 'What's a doula? This is not what you were meant to do!' And I was like, 'Everyone thinks they can only do one thing.'

I don't set up screenings. I can barely plan my kid's birthday party.

I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

I've had a go at captaincy. Batting and bowling and captaincy turned out to be a bit too much.

I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.