Quotes About Multitasking

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

It was only that his intellect was in such a constant state of multitasking that he seemed to orbit at altitude, separated from those who operated on a more ordinary plane.

The trouble with multitasking. In study after study, researchers have shown that performing multiple tasks at once makes the brain less efficient. Basically, the brain doesn't become proficient at doing multiple tasks, it simply becomes faster at skipping back and forth between them and blocking other information out.

when the mind shifts back and forth it actually slows down. This shifting back and forth is known as "switchtasking" and there's a high cost to doing this habitually.

It's hard to accuse someone of not working hard when he's got that earpiece as a constant reminder of how busy he might be. He

Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience. Elena (Bitten)

I'm so talented. I can listen to music and ignore you at the same time.

How do you juggle having a career, trying to get an education and being the best mom on the block?

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.

People always have many different roles to play. The crucial thing is to be determined to make a wholehearted effort in everything and be fully engaged in what we are doing at any given moment.

Do only one thing at a time. It is lazy people who want to do everything at once.

Fresh newsprint, good coffee, assorted texts, some messages on her BlackBerry, what more could the modern world offer?

Here's a guy who can use his arms and legs at the same time.

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch, and one on the throttle.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

She drove off in typical L.A. fashion, foot flat on the gas and a cell phone pressed against one ear.

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

If women are so bloody perfect at multitasking, how come they cant have a headache and sex at the same time?

A woman's work is never done

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.