The use of willpower to overcome physical problems.
‘I don't know if it's the pills or mind over matter, but I feel different’
‘In this concrete sense, the starving cult members assert the pre-eminence of mind over matter, wreaking catastrophe in their emaciated wake when the novel's various strands converge climactically in 1960s-style student riots.’
‘Someone once told me that it was just mind over matter and I shouldn't be on drugs, and that if I were strong-minded enough, I wouldn't need them.’
‘Quality over quantity, skill over strength, mind over matter - the comparisons just don't end for Cherwell's heroic 4-2 victory against all the odds.’
‘Your article on mind over matter was interesting, but what a pity that people will not believe things without scientific proof.’
‘Exhaustion, heat rash and blisters, yet on she walked, exerting mind over matter, through the bleak and desolate Sahara Desert.’
‘Later she preferred to see it as her first experiment in mind over matter, a parlour trick in which she had asserted a dominance that never materialised on the sports field or in the classroom.’
‘And there is also his enduring philosophy - dating back to his playing days - of the power of mind over matter.’
‘Call it mind over matter, call it compelling self assured confidence, call it what you like, but I won, and I knew I would.’
‘They go to extraordinary lengths - literally - to demonstrate the achievement of mind over matter.’
‘From all indications, and I don't think it's mind over matter, the leg is now starting to feel a better.’
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