Mireille Guiliano

Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn't called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless!

French Author

Charlie Munger

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

American Businessman

James Gleick

It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.

American Author

Roseanne Barr

Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve.

American Actress

Deepak Chopra

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.

American Speaker

Diana Taylor

For some reason, the executive world is not conducive to women as much as to men. There are reasons for that. Women multitask; men by-and-large are much better at doing one thing at a time.

American Public Servant

Douglas Rushkoff

The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

American Journalist

Alan Cumming

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

Scottish Actor

Marilyn vos Savant

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

American Writer

Glenn Beck

I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.

Multitasking is valued for saving time by doing more than one thing simultaneously.

Time Efficiency

Employers often seek employees who can multitask effectively in dynamic work environments.

Workplace Skill

Taking on too many tasks can lead to stress and a drop in productivity and quality.

Potential Overload

Being good at multitask is crucial in fast-paced sectors like healthcare or hospitality.

Essential Competency

Multitask involves prioritizing tasks and managing time well to ensure efficiency.

Task Management

In computing, multitasking requires a powerful processor to handle many processes at once.

Computing Power

Software designed to multitask allows users to switch between tasks without losing progress.

Software Feature

Multitasking in computing is efficient, let you run multiple programs without manual intervention.

Efficient Operation

 This is the quantum skier. He seems to be intact, he seems to be perfectly healthy, and yet, he seems to have gone around both sides of that tree at the same time. Well, if you saw tracks like that you'd guess it was some sort of stunt, of course. But in the quantum world, this happens all the time. Particles can multitask, they can be in two places at once.

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 and ready to learn something new. Also, the instinct to multitask is so hard to turn off, but it's so important that you do it. You know, when you're listening to music these days, most of the time it's something that we do passively. It's in the background. It's the soundtrack to something else that we're doing.

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 instructions to move your mouse around on the screen, to run that clock widget on your desktop, play your internet radio, manage the files you're editing on the hard drive, and much, much more. Your computer's CPU is one heck of a multitasker! "But oh my gosh there's a very important mouse click

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 Others, like the female black bear, can multitask, giving birth and lactating while they’re hibernating through the winter. The fat-tailed dwarf lemur prepares for its long dormancy by gorging on food and storing the majority of its fat reserves in its tail, doubling its body weight.

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 If you think about your life today, you go every day through many different scales, many different changes of rhythm and pace. You work over different time zones, you talk to very different people, you multitask. We all know it, and we do it kind of automatically.

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 jet-lagged. We didn't evolve to multitask. Rather, we evolved to do one thing with incredible focus, like hunt -- not necessarily with great speed but with endurance for great distance. But now there's a widening gap between our biology and our lifestyles,

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 world all these screens competing for your attention an infinite amount of signals competing for that cognitive limited resource of your attention attention is the new oil we live in the attention economy and the idea the equals somehow multitask you can

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 just by virtue of the fact that it is their code. So that's one reason. Second it's been shown that if you speak two languages, dementia is less likely to set in, and that you are probably a better multitasker. And these are factors that set in early,

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 help cut produce keep its color by thwarting the enzyme that causes browning. Some compounds like sulfites can multitask. They're both antimicrobials and antioxidants. Sulfites may cause allergy symptoms in some people,

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 and carelessness in it now where we all try to multitask and when I think about snails I think about what's important and I think about slowing down and being