Distraction Quote by Marilyn vos Savant Download Open image “Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.” — Marilyn vos Savant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distraction
Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am not a multi-tasker. When I do one thing, I fully concentrate on it and leave the other thing aside. — Shenaz Treasury Copy Share Image
Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time. — Gary W. Keller Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
“If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another ,before you do anything,you should first decide wether you have a… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.' — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
“the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it’s that computers are seductive, they tempt… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
