Remy de Gourmont Quotes

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

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

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'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.

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

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

There are different usage patterns - I never do email during the day. I don't multitask well at all. I don't know how to be in a meeting and participate and be on email at the same time. I do see some people do it more effectively. I've never quite figured that out.

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.

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 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.

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

You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?

Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

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

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

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

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

I'm not the kind of person who can do a lot of things at the same time.