Fred L. Turner Quotes

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.

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

To do two things at once is to do neither.

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.

I can't do too many things at one time.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

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.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

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.

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

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.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

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

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

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.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

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.

How can you think and hit 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.

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

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.