Top 81 Multitasking Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading.
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
I like to think of murder-suicide as extreme multitasking.
Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
I'm not good at multitasking.
To me, running is almost like multitasking. You get to people-watch or tour a city that you've never been in while exercising.
Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.
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.
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.
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.
Work is my utmost priority and I am good at multitasking.
I don't believe in multitasking. I rather believe in doing one thing at a time.
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.
It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of instruments that alone won't tell you exactly what the airplane is doing but together give you a picture of everything that's going on.
Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.
What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.
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.
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.
I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.
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.
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.
Kids have a tendency to switch off if their parents are multitasking.
Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.
I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.
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.
Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture human thought and imagination?
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.
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.
Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.
I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.
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.
I've always got loads on my plate, so I should concentrate on fewer things. I take multitasking to a ridiculous degree.
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.
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.
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.
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.
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.
They say multitasking is a female trait, but it's not about gender; it's about personality type.
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.
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.
What it turns out is that we think we're multitasking, but we're not. The brain is sequential tasking: we flit from one thought to the next very, very rapidly, giving us the illusion that what we're doing is doing all these things at once.
There's no such thing as multitasking.
Multitasking is a lie.
My children have trained me well for multitasking.
I did that thing where you scratch your eyebrow and flip someone off at the same time. I'm good at multitasking like that.
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.
As long as you're ahead of a trend, I think you're going to be fine. You really have to have a multitasking mind that can switch from one thing to the other easily without too much focus on, 'Oh, I'm going to Instagram my life.'
Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.
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.
I'm used to multitasking... I like it that way. I like when things are busy. I strive off the pace.
Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.
Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion.
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.
The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.
I love radio interviews; it's all about multitasking and, like all good women, I can do that.
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.
For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
Guys are not good under pressure. They're just not good at multitasking, but on that note, we should be a bit less good at enabling them to, you know? That's a problem.
