Multi Tasking Quotes

“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.”
― Michael Foley, The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

“High performers whom exhibit tremendous self-control tend to be burden by their own competence. Studies indicate that being extraordinary competent can place a person under an unusual amount of stress because it raises other people’s expectation of them. The more task that an exemplary employee produces with a ‘go-getting personality’ while maintaining high quality relationships with peers and clients, the more an organization tends to underestimates their actual effort and the more it expects of them. Other people do not comprehend how difficult it is for a high performer to complete multifaceted tasks. They also tend to underestimate how much effort an enterprising person exerts who maintains a positive and pleasant attitude while completing difficult assignments.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Multilevel multitasking multiplied multiple times is Event Management.”
― Rehan Waris

“Multi-tasking is NOT an option”
― Mani S. Sivasubramanian, How To Focus - Stop Procrastinating, Improve Your Concentration & Get Things Done - Easily!

“Be strategic about productivity—do less exceptionally well, instead of doing more in an average way.”
― Laurie Buchanan, PhD

“The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.”
― Nigel Cumberland, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living

“[Our brains are] not wired to multi-task well...When people think they're multi-tasking, they're actually just switching from one task to another very rapidly. And every time they do, there's a cognitive cost in doing so.”
― Earl Miller

“The truth of the matter is that most major success in this right-brain, internet-connected, uber-competitive world no longer comes from doing things consecutively. If you do things consecutively, you lose. This is a fact. Slow and steady may have won the race in the past, but today, in order to even get into the race, you have to be the one organizing it too, and doing everything all at the same time.”
― Monroe Mann