Sentence examples for commanding yourself from inspiring English sources

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Sometimes avoiding those tempting fatty options is as easy as commanding yourself not to.

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Command yourself silently to be quiet.

You, who can't even manage eye contact during small-talk with the person you sit next to in your 9-5, have to envisage yourself commanding a dressing room of testosterone-addled athletes.

The very people who you struggle to open your heart to are the ones to whom you are commanded to give yourself fully.

If you don't present yourself like a performer, I don't think you have any chance of commanding the stage.

The scene between him and Dany was pretty cheesy – "I command you to heal yourself" – and yet I'll admit it still touched me, not least because Ser Friendzone finally declared his love.

When it's Diana's turn to learn to fight, her aunt, Antiope, trains her fiercely, and when Diana stumbles, she commands her, "Never doubt yourself!" leading Diana to find unknown strength and power in her next moves.

Meanwhile in the recent Game of Thrones episode "The Door," when Daenerys told Jorah, "I command you to heal yourself," right before the two characters parted ways possibly forever the exchange might propel Jorah toward a Princess Mononoke-style personal odyssey.

Exhortations to find meaning in the present echo urgently throughout, perhaps most memorably in "The Feast," wherein the author commands, "Feast yourself on beauty / while you can, the useless / thing".

Wiggle your toes and fingers, and be aware of them moving to your every command, remind yourself that you're in control.

Note that there is no imperative conjugation for the singular first person "yo," or "I" in English, because you cannot issue a command to yourself.

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