mind over ass
other.— «Fiction writing has become a passion for the scribe, whose genial self-effacement obscures the discipline necessary to steadily face the keyboard before or after the workday—a practice he dubs “mind over ass.”» —“Rhode Island’s man of mystery” by Ian Donnis Phoenix (Boston, Massachusetts) Dec. 14, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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