multitasking quotes

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

When I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.