The phrase "cease thinking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when instructing someone to stop their thought process or to halt contemplation on a particular subject.
Example: "In moments of stress, it can be helpful to simply cease thinking and focus on your breathing."
Alternatives: "stop thinking" or "halt your thoughts."
But America should drop the Dulles mentality for the '70s and the '50s and cease thinking of "bases".
And sometimes impossible to overcome, too, was the idea that Shurvon's life might not be worth living; that I, in his place, would rather stop breathing, cease thinking, that I would prefer to die.
If you're living in the northern U.S. it is likely that your garden is presently covered under several inches of snow, but as a recent article in the New York Times demonstrates, through the long winter months many gardeners never cease thinking about them.
If we believe that the label defines the person and the diagnosis infers the cure, then we cease thinking.
Middle age has long been conceptualized as that phase of life where we cease thinking about our potential as human beings, and start focusing on our limitations.
As soon as I re-enter my everyday life and cease thinking about myself in isolation and in the abstract, I can see clearly that I am a human being in the midst of specific other human beings to whom I relate in various ways, and consequently the answer to "who am I?" becomes extremely easy.
Finally he ceased thinking about it".
Too bad it gave so much space to someone who ceased thinking about it sometime during the Ford administration.
"Cocooned by our big brother," says an Abe adviser, "the Japanese ceased thinking strategically about their own future".Another consequence a domestic politics that is unresponsive to people's wishes is nowhere more evident than in the fate of Okinawa.
And it has come to pass that we ceased thinking much about other choices.
They have reshaped our minds in ways that we long ago ceased thinking about.
