Taskers Quotes & Sayings

How often have you heard people brag about what great multi-taskers they are? Perhaps you've made the same boast yourself. You might even have heard that members of "Gen Y" are natural multi-taskers, having lived their whole lives constantly switching their attention from texting to IMing to Facebooking to watching TV - all supposedly without missing a beat. We even see training classes designed to teach managers how best to multi-task their Gen Y staff, the implication being that asking someone to focus on a single task through to completion has now become ridiculously old-fashioned for, if not downright heretical to, the new world order.

Don't believe it. — Michael Hannan

I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or "You have to do that." Buddhism does not prescribe rituals or prohibitions in the way many religions do. — Pankaj Mishra

Or maybe it's about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you. — Mary Oliver

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. — Clay Shirky

Mothers are multi-taskers. — Sophie Kinsella

Freedom means that one is responsible for one's own choices, actions, one's own life situation. Though — Irvin D. Yalom

The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time. — Susan Vreeland

A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin. — Henry Johnson Jr

Styles are tailor made to different situations. Different leaders must have their own styles and these styles must be able to adapt to different people and situations. — John Ng

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. — Carl Sagan