Robin Marantz Henig

Beliefs about how lying looks are plentiful and often contradictory: depending on whom you choose to believe, liars can be detected because they fidget a lot, hold very still, cross their legs, cross their arms, look up, look down, make eye contact or fail to make eye contact.

Writer

John le Carre

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.

English Writer

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.

English Musician

Adam Conover

I find that I have a lot of suppressed energy when I'm on a plane for a long period so when I'm holding a fidget spinner, being able to play with it and just sort of run my hands over it helps me out quite a lot; it helps me relax.

American Comedian

Jesse Eisenberg

I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.

American Actor

Thelma Schoonmaker

When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget. You need that perspective. To give it a cold eye.

Algerian Editor

Richard Ford

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

American Author

Devon Sawa

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

Canadian Actor

Jenny Slate

I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.

American Actress

Pamela Meyer

Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.

Indicates anxiety or discomfort, not only impatience.

Emotional State

Can reveal feelings someone's trying to hide.

Subtle Sign

Sometimes viewed as a sign of deep thinking or concentration.

Not Always Bad

Often happens subconsciously when one's attention is elsewhere.

Involuntary Action

A fidget can leak hidden emotions like impatience or agitation.

Emotional Leakage

Be aware and manage your fidgets to appear more composed.

Discreetly Handle

Can be a healthy way to manage stress or anxiety.

Stress Relief

Fidget devices are tools, not toys, and help people with focusing issues.

Not Just Toys

Fidget toys may be accepted differently across cultures and settings.

Acceptance Varies

 Now this brings us to our next pattern, which is body language. With body language, here's what you've got to do. You've really got to just throw your assumptions out the door. Let the science temper your knowledge a little bit. Because we think liars fidget all the time.

How to spot a liar PIPE...

 it with a knife and a fork trust me it feels ridiculous to eat a snickers bar like this but it helped me be more conscious of what i was eating i learned to be in perpetual motion all day every day looking for ways to move and to fidget because fidgeting can burn 200 300

The psychological weight...

 where I asked the waitress for a pen. I always had a notebook with me, claiming that it was to jot down ideas in moments of inspiration, but the truth was that I needed to be constantly fidgeting, because in moments of stillness, I found myself counting seconds again.

Our story of rape and...

 It was interesting. When she was at school, she was really hopeless. And the school, in the '30s, wrote to her parents and said, "We think Gillian has a learning disorder." She couldn't concentrate; she was fidgeting. I think now they'd say she had ADHD. Wouldn't you?

Do schools kill...

 or long distance running, or fidgeting? But what is a calorie, really, and how many of them do we actually need? Calories are a way of keeping track of the body's energy budget. A healthy balance occurs when we put in about as much energy as we lose.

What is a calorie? -...

 for spiritual ecstasy. Religion as I knew it was a childhood battle against boredom, fidgeting in the face of archaic text. But in Jerusalem, religion can be more like the misspent nights of my youth, a God rave right in the middle of the streets.

God Is My Drug PIPE Explorer

 ADHD. I'm not saying there's no such thing. I just don't believe it's an epidemic like this. If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget, you know?

How to escape...

 that we will never have to be alone, is central to changing our psyches. Because the moment that people are alone, even for a few seconds, they become anxious, they panic, they fidget, they reach for a device.

Connected, but alone? PIPE...

 they can be quite overwhelming. So in those situations, we do something called stimming, which is like a repetitive motion or a noise or some other random fidgeting that may or may not seem normal.

What it's really like to...

 How do you picture this theater? Lots of loudspeakers, quite frankly. It's interesting. When people make a sound, when they laugh, when they fidget, when they take a drink or blow their nose

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Emotional State

Subtle Sign

Not Always Bad

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