Ken Robinson Quotes

One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other.

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

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

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.

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.

Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

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

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

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

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

The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.

Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.

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

They say multitasking is a female trait, but it's not about gender; it's about personality type.

I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.

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.

There are too many distractions on a computer.

Today, you talk to kids about books and they almost want to run away because they've got computers, iPads and all that, while we had to actually sit down and crack the books open and go line by line to try to learn all that stuff.

In the world of millennials we are running very strong .

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.

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.