Quotes About Multitasking

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.

Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.

Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.

It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

Sometimes you've got to make your work and workouts co-exist.

Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.

In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.

Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel.

I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.

To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.

When you're trying to be a parent and a businessperson at the same time, that is the most stressful thing you could do.

I direct as many shows as I can fit in between 'Strictly Come Dancing' and other performance stuff.

So as long as I can do something like this kids show or I can go off and film polar bears or I can do some radio and stuff, and sort of keep other strings in my bow working, then it's good.

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.

It's about maintaining balance. Plan better, be organised. I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?