He puts his whole self into listening and talking.
"The Skull is the reminder that you shall always be willing to put your self at stake for the life of the whole community."
A bit of this, a fiddle with that - never really put your whole self into anything, do you?
I just think that when you're working, it's important to put your best self forward.
To "put one's self into another's shoes," went the ancient metaphor.
But you just put your own self out of comish.
He was also a formidable draftsman who could put his whole self into pencil and paper.
In the meantime he's putting his whole self into it, every day, and he has our attention.
Can I afford to put my whole self on the line?
Or, more to the point, what had the people who put my former self in that car trunk been planning?