Top 74 Quotes About Multitasking
#1. For many years, when I was starring on 'Touched by an Angel,' I produced on a number of television movies for CBS. I have always enjoyed the aspect of bringing something together and multitasking in that way.
Roma Downey
#3. I'M PRETTY GOOD at multitasking, so I figured I could flee in terror and argue at the same time.
Rick Riordan
#4. You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.
Daniel J. Levitin
#5. Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
Gary Keller
#6. Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.
Deepak Chopra
#7. It's important to be aware of how multitasking can stimulate us into mindlessness, giving the illusion of productivity while stealing our focus and harming performance. "When you are walking, walk. When you are sitting, sit," is ancient wisdom.
Sharon Salzberg
#8. Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#9. Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.
Michael Foley
#10. A strategy is multi-dimensional planning, multi-team collaboration, and multitasking action.
Pearl Zhu
#11. Fucking two things up at the same time isn't multitasking
Dick Masterson
#12. Einstein didn't invent the theory of relativity while he was multitasking at the Swiss patent office.
quoting, David Meyer, a cognitive scientist at the University of Michigan
Winifred Gallagher
#13. For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
Patrick Carman
#14. One thing I am learning is to slow down. Multitasking is great, but I when try to do everything at warp speed I just end up with typos and stress.
Ayana Mathis
#15. I like to think of murder-suicide as extreme multitasking.
Dana Gould
#16. Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.
Alex Blumberg
#17. I did that thing where you scratch your eyebrow and flip someone off at the same time. I'm good at multitasking like that.
Darynda Jones
#19. 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.
Marco Arment
#20. If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
Frank Delaney
#21. Studies consistently show that the better people think they are at multitasking, the worse they actually are and I am GREAT at it.
John Green
#22. Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.
James Surowiecki
#23. I told you to keep him safe, not cuddle."
Alucard spread his hands behind him on the sheets. "I'm more than capable of multitasking
V.E Schwab
#24. We miss extra bits of knowledge that can add value to our lives. We sort of lack empathy because we're multitasking all the time.
Kim Stolz
#25. Multitasking doesn't save time - it wastes time.
Gary Keller
#26. Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.
Walter Brueggemann
#27. Some days I don't have time for a full workout, but I do have to dry my hair, right? So rather than just stand there blow-drying, I do several kinds of leg squats at the same time. I believe in multitasking.
Christie Brinkley
#28. There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.
Amy Ryan
#29. My biggest thing is, I'm learning what it's like to carry myself in a personal way and also a professional way: how I can be a leader and do multitasking.
Genevieve Padalecki
#30. Multitasking makes you stupid - dumber than getting stoned.
Brigid Schulte
#31. marriage is an ultimate sport in emotional multitasking. I'm never only mad at Greg. I'm mad and madly in love; angry and concerned for his wellbeing; he frustrates and delights me in the same second. We were arguing, but we were still a team.
Penny Reid
#32. The simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity ... What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.
Susan Cain
#33. I think my biggest career mistake has been taking on too much. And I think this is kind of - I think it's related to the Internet world, where you're always multitasking and you have a million windows open and you feel like you can do a lot at the same time.
Jessica Valenti
#34. Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.
Jennifer Lee
#35. I've learnt that, sometimes, how others see you is not the same as how you see yourself. I've learnt about how you can be multitasking - and sometimes other people see that you're multitasking. And that's not very nice for them.
David Miliband
#36. 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.
Heidi Klum
#37. Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.
Helena Bonham Carter
#38. If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
Clay Shirky
#39. Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.
Douglas Rushkoff
#40. Multitasking Makes You Stupid. Doing more than one thing at a time makes you slower and worse at both tasks. Don't do it. If you think this doesn't apply to you, you're wrong - it does.
Jeff Sutherland
#41. Concentration Attention Multitasking Boredom Procrastination
Sharon Salzberg
#42. Start with the important task first: Start the most important task first, as this will make you relaxed and avoid anxiety to jump into multitasking.
Dorothy Enderson
#43. When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we're being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we're simply giving ourselves extra work.
Michael Harris
#44. Eliminate multitasking to learn faster and think better.
Jill Konrath
#45. I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
Margaret Atwood
#46. The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking.
John Medina
#47. There's no such thing as multitasking.
Jim Loehr
#48. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth.
John Medina
#49. Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth.
Susan Cain
#50. Wilson showed that the cognitive losses from multitasking are even greater than the cognitive losses from pot smoking.
Daniel J. Levitin
#51. Over time, stress hormones from multitasking can damage memory centers in the brain. Focus on one task at a time for better efficiency and memory.
Peter Lawrence
#52. I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.
James Surowiecki
#53. Multitasking means that you are not able to make full, rich connections in your thinking, because the part of your brain that helps make connections is constantly being pulled away before neural connections can be firmed up.
Barbara Oakley
#54. Multitasking is the enemy of a focused attentional system. Increasingly, we demand that our attentional system try to focus on several things at once, something that it was not evolved to do.
Daniel J. Levitin
#55. 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.
Len Goodman
#56. Multilevel multitasking multiplied multiple times is Event Management.
Rehan Waris
#57. It's neuroscience that would say that our capacity to multitask is virtually nonexistent. Multitasking is a computer-derived term. We have one processor. We can't do it.
Dan Harris
#58. The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.
Joss Whedon
#59. I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.
Heidi Klum
#61. I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
Ian Somerhalder
#62. Multitasking is actually a hindrance to productivity. Focus on one thing and get it done.
Del Suggs
#63. 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.
Irene Rosenfeld
#64. Those who consistently attempt multitasking find it harder to ignore irrelevant information and take longer moving between tasks - in other words, for all their frantic activity, they're actually wasting time. And
Margaret Heffernan
#65. My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
#66. We've become such a multitasking society that just paying attention to the road doesn't seem to be that important anymore. I have to remind my kids all the time that that's what you're supposed to be doing in the car.
Andie MacDowell
#67. People say pot-smokers are lazy. I disagree; I'm a multitasking pot-smoker: just the other day I was walking down the street, I was putting eyedrops in my eyes, I was talking on my cell phone, and I was getting hit by a car.
Doug Benson
#68. A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.
David Brooks
#69. Juggling is an illusion ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession ... It is actually task switching.
Gary Keller
#70. I like "multi-" ... multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement.
Rossana Condoleo
#72. Multi-tasking is great in the kitchen when you are trying to time the chicken to be ready at the same time as the potatoes. But do not assume it is a great way to manage a workday.
Joanne Tombrakos
#74. You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.
Gary Keller
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