Jodie Foster Quotes

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.

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

There's no such thing as multitasking.

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 think that we get so distracted with our smartphones... It takes your body and your brain time to switch between tasks. If we can focus on what we're doing, we'll be more productive at that task.

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

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.

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

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

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

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.

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.

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'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.