Chris Pine Quotes

The challenging thing from a work perspective is just the range of things on any given day that you're dealing with and making sure you have the head space to really be giving them the thought and consideration you'd like, too.

Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Like many, I am often in back-to-back meetings most of the day.

I think being able to juggle time and mind space comes with the trajectory of being an actor.

I am not cut out to do too many films at a time.

I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.

I'm constantly busy.

My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well, as there's already enough producers.

Whenever you have a tight schedule, you sort of have to film whatever you can that day.

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

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 get so many requests for interviews. If I talk to everyone, we can't do our job with our customers and work on our software. It would be hard to stay focused.

How can I run an agency at the same time?

I can't deal with all her questions and also be President.

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.

I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.

The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.

If you're overbooked, you can't manage pressing problems or even recognize they're pressing until too late.

I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.

Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.