Sigourney Weaver Quotes

I am terrible at doing nothing. I'm not brilliant at doing one thing at a time, either. Ideally, I would fill out my tax return while watching a film; peel potatoes while reading the post; send emails in the bath.

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.

Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.

You have to have a brain that works like the spokes of a bicycle. You've got to be able to do 18 things at once.

For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project.

I can multitask.

I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.

I like multi-tasking.

I like to have a few things going on at once. It feels natural.

I can't do one thing at a time. If I'm writing song lyrics, I've got to be doing the ironing or cooking or something while I'm working. If I just sit there and stare at the walls, I get nothing.

You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.

Be a gold-medal multitasker. You should be able to discuss the new Ludacris video while correcting the merchandising spreadsheets, picking the right shade of snakeskin for next season's mini-purses and catching the dog at the same time!

I think my biggest career mistake has been taking on too much. And I think this is kind of - I think it's related to the Internet world, where you're always multitasking and you have a million windows open and you feel like you can do a lot at the same time.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

The military can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.