Quotes about Multitasking

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the words of the true philosophy.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

Oh, don't go on like that! cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry! Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. Can you keep from crying by considering things? she asked. That's that way it's done, the Queen said with great decision: nobody can do two things at once, you know.