Multi Tasking Quotes:

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

- Deepika Padukone

topic: Obsessive, Multi Tasking, Methodical, Obsessive Compulsive

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

- Jeremy Clarkson

topic: Ability, Screws, Multi Tasking

I'm not good at multi-tasking.

- Natalie Maines

topic: Multi Tasking

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

- Brian Eno

source: "Brian Eno: from the Velvet Underground to Burial". Interview with Rob Fitzpatrick, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2011.

topic: Awful, Bloody, Multi Tasking

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

topic: People, Tasks, Literature, Interrupting, Multitasking

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

- Helena Bonham Carter

topic: Two, Multitasking, Multi Tasking

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

- Marilyn vos Savant

topic: Madness, Distraction, Arise, Multitasking, Multi Tasking

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

- Ian Somerhalder

topic: Brain, Littles, Mosquitoes, Multitasking, Attention Span

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

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

topic: Multitasking, Management, Excitement, Multi Tasking, Crisis Management

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

topic: Thinking, Focus, Missing, Multitasking, Television News

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

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

topic: Food, Thinking, Knives, Multitasking, Multi Tasking

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

topic: Thinking, People, Mind, Multi Tasking

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

topic: Reading, Men, Maps, Spatial, Multitasking

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

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

topic: Gun, Race, Giving, Multi Tasking, Slow And Steady

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

topic: Moving, Men, Thinking, Blinkers, Whole Picture

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

- Gary W. Keller

topic: Opportunity, Screw Ups, Screws, Multitasking, Multi Tasking

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

topic: Desire, Different, Tasks, Cognitive, Multi Tasking

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

topic: School, Needs, Taught, Poor Family, Multi Tasking

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

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

topic: Mom, Kids, Thinking, Multi Tasking, Time To Relax

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

topic: Girl, Work Ethic, One Day At A Time, Multi Tasking

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

- Li Ka-shing

topic: Communication, Technology, Enabling, Information And Communication, Multi Tasking

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

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

topic: Letting Go, Goal, Waiting, Multi Tasking

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

topic: Singers, Paint, Used, Multi Tasking

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

- Francis Chan

topic: Leadership, Christian, Church, Multi Tasking

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

topic: Leadership, Christian, Couple, Multi Tasking, Alone With God

I've gotten much better at multi-tasking. It's hard, though. But, writing a script is not totally focused. You're taking little breaks, all the time. If a kid runs in, you give 'em a horsey ride. It's a pretty fluid process.

- Matt Damon

topic: Running, Writing, Kids, Multi Tasking

I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the least. In fact one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time; do it well; forget about it instantly), the apostrophe is the frantically multi-tasking female, dotting hither and yon, and succumbing to burn-out from all the thankless effort.

- Lynne Truss

topic: Jobs, Mean, Effort, Versatile, Succumbing

I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

- Annie Lennox

topic: Different, Want, Spinning, Multi Tasking

I'm minimalistic when it comes to makeup, so I'm a sucker for anything that's multi-tasking. Aquaphor is my go-to product. It's great for adding gloss to eyes and cheekbones, and amazing for soothing dry cuticles, too.

- Mandy Moore

topic: Eye, Makeup, Dry, Cheekbones, Multi Tasking

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Motherhood, Thinking, People, Multi Tasking