Distraction Quote by Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Deepak Chopra

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

— Marilyn vos Savant

I am not a multi-tasker. When I do one thing, I fully concentrate on it and leave the other thing aside.

— Shenaz Treasury

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

— Gary W. Keller

“When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from…

— Michael Harris

When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a…

— Karen Finerman

“Those who consistently attempt multitasking find it harder to ignore irrelevant information and take longer moving between tasks—in other words, for all their frantic…

— Margaret Heffernan

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

— Susan Cain

“Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of…

— Susan Cain

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…

— Joss Whedon

“...the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity...What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between…

— Susan Cain

“Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of…

— Susan Cain