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Multitasking is a lie.
I'm not good at multitasking.
There's no such thing as multitasking.
Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
My children have trained me well for multitasking.
I like to think of murder-suicide as extreme multitasking.
Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.
I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.
I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.
Kids have a tendency to switch off if their parents are multitasking.
I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
I don't believe in multitasking. I rather believe in doing one thing at a time.
Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
I love radio interviews; it's all about multitasking and, like all good women, I can do that.
Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.
They say multitasking is a female trait, but it's not about gender; it's about personality type.
I'm used to multitasking... I like it that way. I like when things are busy. I strive off the pace.
Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.
The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.
Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.
I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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.
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 kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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.
Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion.
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.
Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.
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.
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.
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.