Quotes About Multitasking

Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable). . .

When I learned to sew, I forgot how to cook.

You know you're a nurse if… you triage the laundry at home.

I have other time frames to worry about besides yours!

I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.

The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé? for another job.

Whoever said time is on your side sure never had twins.

I was interested in a lot of subjects from very early on. And that's uniquely Chicano because every Chicano I knew always had three jobs.

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

That is what I think about women: We can do so much and take care of so much that we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to fully get it all handled.

In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.

I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release.

I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.

In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

No-one gets a job at 16 and stays in it until 60 any more; we're connected to more people simultaneously than ever before, whether online or on our phones. We wear so many different hats within one day, one week, a lifetime.

You gotta step up your bars! Look, I run two labels. I sing. I dance. I don't spend all my time rapping.

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'