Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

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

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

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.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

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 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.

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

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

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

Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.

The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

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

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

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.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

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

To do two things at once is to do neither.

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

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

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

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