Multitasking Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

Multitasking is a lie.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.

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.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

Knitting is repetitive, rewarding, and calms me down like a warm bath. But it takes up juuuust enough brainspace that I can't come up with ideas. Which is too bad, because I love multitasking.

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.

Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.

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

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.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

I did that thing where you scratch your eyebrow and flip someone off at the same time. I'm good at multitasking like that.

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.

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.