say to oneself
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“If they took you into the Actors Studio, it made one say to oneself, ‘Maybe I have something.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2024
One should say to oneself: "I will enter like this," while rehearsing one's entrance, so as not to be caught napping at the outset.
From Poise: How to Attain It by Starke, D.
When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, 'What are 'her surroundings?
From Swann's Way by Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
Embracing then Modesty, say to oneself, 'Good my friend, Be thou content with flowers,--fruit,--nay, leaves, But pluck them from no garden but thine own!'
From Cyrano De Bergerac by Guillemard, Mary F.
It is necessary to say to oneself, That is good for Rubens, this for Raphael, Titian, or Michael Angelo.
From The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art by Binyon, Cicely Margaret Powell