Top 35 Multitasking Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Multitasking Quotes from famous people such as Len Goodman, Daniel Levitin, Joss Whedon, Roma Downey, Ellen Ullman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the ex

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
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.
Daniel Levitin
The secret to multitasking is that it isn’t actually multitasking. It’s just extreme focus and organization.
Joss Whedon
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.
Roma Downey
If you’ve ever watched someone who is a mother talk on the phone, feed the dog, bounce the baby, it’s just astounding to see someone manage, more or less well, to do all those things. But on a computer, multitasking is really binary. The task is either in the foreground, or it’s not.
Ellen Ullman
They say multitasking is a female trait, but it’s not about gender; it’s about personality type.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
Patrick Carman
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
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
Frank Delaney
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.
Maria Cornejo
In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.
Carl Honore
Chinese cooking is noisy – a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.
Jennifer Lee
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.
Aaron Diehl
There’s no such thing as multitasking.
Jim Loehr
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.
Andie MacDowell
Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It’s multitasking, it’s empathy, and it’s channeling visuals into human emotion.
Rachel Morrison
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
Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.
Ellen Ullman
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
I’m quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.
Heidi Klum
Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.
Monica
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
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.
Daniel Levitin
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.’
Chiara Ferragni
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
NMDA receptors are concentrated in the areas that control learning and memory, higher functions like multitasking, and some of the more subtle aspects of personality. When the immune system makes antibodies that attack these receptors, people may have seizures and violent fits.
Susannah Cahalan
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.
Christie Brinkley
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
Ian Somerhalder
Even though we think we’re getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.
Daniel Levitin
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.
Heidi Klum
My children have trained me well for multitasking.
Kaitlin Olson
Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can

Multitasking? I can’t even do two things at once. I can’t even do one thing at once.
Helena Bonham Carter
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.
Charlie Munger
I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.
Kate Moss
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