44 Quotes About Multitasking

Doing one thing at a time is a recipe for a life that won't keep up with your dreams.

Multitasking is a lie

A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.

I like "multi-"...multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement.

Multi-tasking is NOT an option

Multitasking is overrated - I'd rather do one thing well than many things badly. Quality supersedes quantity every time.

Sirine finishes deskewering six plates of lamb shish kabobs and three plates of chicken, drizzling oil over ground beef and hummus, over smoky puréed eggplant, over a bowl of olives, and splashing four tabbouleh salads with lemon.

It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to do one thing at a time. One thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly, uni-tasking.

I want to lengthen, not shorten, my attention span, and most of the material splendors of the twenty-first century bully me in the opposite direction. The fault is mine, I'll admit. I'm too slow-witted, reluctant to evolve, constitutionally unable to get with the program. I can't afford the newest gadgets and I'm not a natural multitasker.