Quotes About Multitasking

For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.

I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

I think I probably tend to make life hard for myself by taking on too many things. I call it plate spinning.

We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinning plates.

I have been spinning a lot of plates, like every mum.

It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.

In life, lots of things occupy two or more classifications

Focus is passé. In the modern world we want to feel everything all the time. There is no point in just taking a walk in the park when we can also listen to headphones, munch on a hot dog, crank up our vibrating soles to the maximum, and check out the passing carnival of humanity. Our choices about the creed of a new world order: stimulation! Thought and creativity have become subservient to the singular goal of saturating our senses.

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

I'm always working on multiple songs at a time.

I think my experience playing multiple sports kind of helps deal with a little bit of a bind.

To me, running is almost like multitasking. You get to people-watch or tour a city that you've never been in while exercising.

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

Keeping it all together as a modern woman means multitasking, especially when you work. I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it. I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

In the modern desktop environment, with multitasking and alerts and constant activity, there are always more distractions. When you're at a computer, your hands are always on the controls.

I love radio interviews; it's all about multitasking and, like all good women, I can do that.

I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.

I'll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I've been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can't hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.

I like to cook chicken adobo and do my own laundry.

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

When I was younger I remember rushing back and cooking a meal for the family, and never thinking about having a nap between the shows!