Quotes About Multitasking

A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.

It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of instruments that alone won't tell you exactly what the airplane is doing but together give you a picture of everything that's going on.

I used to learn my lines on the toilet, in the car, at dinner.

My friend who runs marathons, throws elaborate parties, sews quilts for everyone she knows, works full-time, and has three children does all of this not in spite of her useless husband but because of him.

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

I can't memorize names and shake hands at the same time.

I will read four or five books at the same time.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

How come I have too many things to do all the time...??

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how to meticulously manage my time.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

I did that thing where you scratch your eyebrow and flip someone off at the same time. I'm good at multitasking like that.

I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.

Digiphrenia"—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.