Simultaneous Tasks Quotes

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

The selfish and usually pointless approach is to try to get both done simultaneously - accomplish your work at hand while begging forgiveness of those close to you while you're basically working in front of them during what could've been specifically 'quality time.'

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.

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

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

I think President Obama, like myself, is a multitasker.

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 usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

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.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

I can multitask.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

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

Eating toast in the shower is the ultimate multitask

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.

I never really work on just one CD - I'm recording, recording.

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.

We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.

You can't make two films at the same time.

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

I like multi-tasking.