Multitasking Quotes

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  • I like to think of murder-suicide as extreme multitasking.

  • I will say it's great to be a woman because we're very good at multitasking. I could nurse and cook dinner at the same time. It is juggling. It's juggling and you've got to commit to working on the weekends - I do both.

    Source: deadline.com
  • It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

    Team   Men   Winning  
    "Women! Embrace your inner geek" by Weili Dai, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2012.
  • 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.

    "This much I know: Len Goodman". Interview With Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.
  • 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.

    Warrior   Simple   Office  
    Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.85, Broadway Books
  • Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book.

    Book   Writing   Months  
  • 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.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • 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.

    Baby   Doors   Feet  
  • Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

  • 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.

    Eye   Phones   Cells  
  • Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

  • 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 On Progress, Fear And Social Media". Interview with Claire Sibonney, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2013.
  • Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

  • The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

    Cheating   Two   Energy  
    Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster
  • I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

    "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.
  • I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

    FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Sep 16, 2013
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Empathy   Missing   Add  
    Source: www.usatoday.com
  • 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.

    "Twelve Tribes of Hattie Author Ayana Mathis Talks Fiction, Family, and (Sometimes) Faking It". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. December 17, 2012.
  • Multitasking is a lie.

  • The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing information-rich inputs simultaneously…Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

    Errors   Brain   Tasks  
  • I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.

  • 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 (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.18, Macmillan
  • 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 Levitin (2015). “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload”, p.327, Penguin UK
  • Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

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

  • 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.

    "Return of the time lord" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.
  • I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want that. I'm terrible at multitasking and find it hard to believe that no one protests this general trend of using the rhetoric of self actualization to sell you faster and faster phones and computers, BlackBerrys, etc.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I'm going to continue working as a model. I want to do it all! And I think it's possible to keep working while you go to school. Christy Turlington did it. Natalie Portman did it. Emma Watson just did it! And those are just women in the public eye, but plenty of others do it, too. You know, women around the world are great at multitasking. We do it well.

    School   Eye   Thinking  
    "Emma Watson Is Karlie Kloss's New Role Model" by Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. March 16, 2015.
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