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Multitasking is a lie. -- Gary W. Keller
Multitasking is a part of my everyday life. -- Monica Denise Brown
Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once. -- Helena Bonham Carter
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. -- Ayana Mathis
Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus. -- Deepak Chopra
I like to think of murder-suicide as extreme multitasking. -- Dana Gould
Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking. -- Alex Blumberg
I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. -- Heidi Klum
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. -- Clay Shirky
Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more. -- James Surowiecki
Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime. -- Jennifer Lee
I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient. -- James Surowiecki
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain. -- Ian Somerhalder
What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent. -- Susan Cain
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
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
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
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. -- Douglas Rushkoff
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
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. -- Heidi Klum
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. -- Susan Cain
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. -- Doug Benson
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. -- Weili Dai
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'. -- Twyla Tharp
Multilevel multitasking multiplied multiple times is Event Management. -- Rehan Waris
I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work. -- Kehinde Wiley
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. -- Frank Delaney
The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization. -- Joss Whedon
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. -- Len Goodman
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. -- Kim Stolz
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. -- Marco Arment
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. -- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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. -- Vera Brosgol

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