Allison Janney Quotes

I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.

Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.

I like multi-tasking.

I need to have many things cooking at the same time.

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

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

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

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

I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.

I'm a multitasker, and I kind of like it that way.

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

I like creating the illusion that suddenly I've just done five things at once.

I am terrible at doing nothing. I'm not brilliant at doing one thing at a time, either. Ideally, I would fill out my tax return while watching a film; peel potatoes while reading the post; send emails in the bath.

I thrive most when I have to juggle things.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

Be a gold-medal multitasker. You should be able to discuss the new Ludacris video while correcting the merchandising spreadsheets, picking the right shade of snakeskin for next season's mini-purses and catching the dog at the same time!

If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.

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

It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-informed. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.

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