Quotes About Multitasking

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.

How can you read and talk at the same time?" I asked. "Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.

The first time I met Elizabeth Edwards, she greeted me at the door of her home juggling a yogurt in one hand and a Diet Coke in the other.

Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.

Whenever Mark takes over the explaining, Brockhoff drops back and takes out her phone. She does not seem rude, just grindingly busy and determined to stay on top of her day. I see her come and go in my peripheral vision, pacing, answering email. She gives the impression of someone for whom idleness is almost physically unbearable. She is gorgeous, articulate, fast-moving, powerful. Lesser humans left blinking in her wake. Brockhoff

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't, this world would end at once.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

Most people find it hard to do two things at once, like complete a sentence and avoid a palm heel to the nose.

We used to try to do more with less; now many of us are trying on our own to do everything at once.

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

Not only is the distracted present a miserable place to be, it's also the worst kind of self-handicapping. Study after study shows that we're terrible multitaskers. By trying to improve performance by being everywhere and everywhen, we end up nowhere and never. The sad truth is that our lives are pulling us in every direction save the one where we're most effective.

This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

Knitting is repetitive, rewarding, and calms me down like a warm bath. But it takes up juuuust enough brainspace that I can't come up with ideas. Which is too bad, because I love multitasking.

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.

When we try to do more than one thing at a time, another deeper problem starts to develop. In the frenzy of juggling it all, we tend to shift our focus away from the things that matter and toward activities we don't really need to be doing at all. We

I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.

I like creating the illusion that suddenly I've just done five things at once.