Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

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 find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a 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.

I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.

I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!

I don't consider myself a great multitasker, so I try to do one thing at a time, even though there were opportunities when I was wrestling.

I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.

My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.

I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

During my long study sessions in the library, I found myself watching YouTube videos during study breaks.

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

There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.