Multi Tasking Quotes

• 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

  People, Tasks, Literature

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• Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Two, Multitasking, One Thing

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• Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Multitasking, Madness, Distraction

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• Multi-tasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ability, Screws

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• I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Brain, Mosquitoes, Attention

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Sep 16, 2013

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• 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

  Multitasking, Management, Excitement

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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• This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an assassin would be able to cook like this.” “Well, I do get lots of practice with knives. You could say I’m multitasking.” The detective froze, his fork halfway to his mouth. “I’m kidding. I enjoy cooking. It relaxes me.

  Jennifer Estep

  Food, Thinking, Knives

  Jennifer Estep (2010). “Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

  Grace Slick

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

  Stephen Hawking

  Reading, Men, Multitasking

  "Return of the time lord" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns.

  Susan Cain

  Gun, Depth, Sticks

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.173, Broadway Books

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• You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.

  Meryl Streep

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

  Gary W. Keller

  Opportunity, Screw Ups, Multitasking

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• When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.

  Linda Stone

  Desire, Different, Tasks

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• I'm not good at multi-tasking.

  Natalie Maines

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• I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

  Alan Dershowitz

  School, Needs, Taught

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• I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Mom, Kids, Vacation

  "Vanessa Williams: 'Vacation'". Interview with Tatiana Morales, www.cbsnews.com. April 06, 2004.

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• It's just one day at a time. I love multi-tasking and I'm really organized and when you have a certain work ethic, which all the girls have, we all have that same thing going on.

  Kris Jenner

  Girl, Work Ethic, One Day At A Time

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• Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

  Li Ka-shing

  Time, Communication, Technology

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• So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

  Susan Cain

  Gun, Race, Giving

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.173, Broadway Books

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• And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.

  George Pattison

  Letting Go, Goal, Waiting

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

  Deepika Padukone

  Obsessive Compulsive, Obsessive, Methodical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

  Grace Slick

  Singers, Paint, Used

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• Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

  Francis Chan

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.

  Francis Chan

  Leadership, Christian, Couple

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