Quotes About Multitasking

It feels like we're always juggling many pieces of information at once or trying out many personas at once. It makes life slightly nonlinear.

I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

The world of the small business owner is all about moving multiple items forward at once, and it's a fool's errand to believe one person can do it all when the shift comes from linear to parallel.

Styling is such a small part of what I do. I have, like, 10 jobs. People don't know that I work so much on the back end of things. They think I'm just dressing people. My business is with brands.

My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches.

Arriving home on a weeknight is guaranteed to be the least relaxing part of my day. The door opens, and two Tasmanian devil-children fly at me, showing me art projects and asking for snacks. My bag has barely hit the floor before I'm off doing 20 things at once, none of which is preparing dinner.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

I don't want to have a singular vision. I don't have that kind of discipline. I love the randomness of my life - how I have five, six, seven projects going on at one time.

I've seen Leonardo Da Vinci notebooks which are filled with tiny, messy scrawls written in mirror image across the page. I'd love to know how he kept all his projects going at once.

he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.

Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what their wives say. And the listening is important, because at any time they could be challenged and must be ready to quote the last sentence in full. A vital additional skill is being able to scan the dialogue for telltale phrases such as and they can deliver it tomorrow or so I've invited them for dinner? or they can do it in blue, really quite cheaply.

If you want something done, give it to someone who's busy!

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

In England, I've had a more balanced career directing and acting. It can be quite difficult to juggle the two careers.

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.

I play the guitar, and I juggle.

I have to juggle school, dance training every night, work-outs and all the writing sessions.

I'm a really good juggler.

Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.

If you're not good at juggling, then you're not juggling. I always tell people that. If you're dropping a lot of balls, then maybe you shouldn't juggle. And that's fine... there's different ways of working.

I'm never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it's hard juggling my family, my husband, balancing that time.

I have a dual role as founder of AERIN and Image and Style Director of Estee Lauder. So work is a bit of a juggling act.