Quotes About Multitasking

It's so weird for me to be watching The Good Wife while I'm still shooting The Good Wife.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.

I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

You also yell at the pigeons outside, watch too many cooking shows, and have a blog entirely dedicated to pictures of yourself.

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

Mothers have to do a poo in four parts because a child will cry, and then they try and finish off but the child needs them again!

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.

If you work on A, can you still do B and C before April? If not, would you rather have B and C instead of A? If you're stuck on something for a long period of time, that means there are other things you're not getting done.

Digiphrenia"—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

Somewhere between six one evening and eight-thirty next morning, beside his dressing and his dinner and his guests and his sleep, he had read a volume of three-hundred-and-odd pages, and

No, no, I just meant…' Patrick felt he was coming from too many directions at once.

I don't know what your damage is, but in case you've failed to notice,we're in a bit of trouble here. Can you focus on something other than trying to get into my pants?" His lips curled. " I can multitask.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

In Los Angeles, I feel like I'm wasting time while I'm driving, so now I listen to NPR and the 'Serial' podcast. I'm like, 'Yay! I can learn something while driving.'

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

If you've ever watched someone who is a mother talk on the phone, feed the dog, bounce the baby, it's just astounding to see someone manage, more or less well, to do all those things. But on a computer, multitasking is really binary. The task is either in the foreground, or it's not.