"directing mind" is a valid phrase that can be used in written English, typically in the context of someone who has a high level of control, influence, or leadership in a particular situation or area.
For example: "The investors were extremely impressed with the CEO's directing mind when it came to the strategic decisions of the company."
Harry S Truman "There are scores of men in the country that seem brighter than he is, but [he] has the directing mind, and will move them about like pawns on a chessboard, and turn all their abilities to better purpose than they themselves could do".
Lord Baker, former education secretary, once complained that "our education system is not the product of a single directing mind - a Napoleon or a Bismarck - let alone the expression of a single guiding principle".
However, the Kolber and Bronfman lawyers told the ICIJ that the Kolber Trust was run from the Cayman islands and that Mr Chazan "was certainly never the directing mind of the Trust".
This beefs up previous provisions that required prosecutors to demonstrate a "directing mind" of a senior manager actively co-ordinating evasion.
What I should have said is that it's a convention rooted in a philosophy essential to many Eastern martial arts: that the material world is secondary, and that the properly directed mind can triumph over matter.
What most of the researchers agree upon is the social intention of this orientation of entrepreneurship, which directs mind towards social context.
For the past 13 years she has been co-directing Minding the Baby, an interdisciplinary reflective parenting home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families, at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing.
Indeed, pride seems both to require reference to an idea of the self, and to buttress whatever meager idea we may already have by directing the mind to an idea of the self outfitted with various pleasurable associations.
Almost anything that invokes pleasurable impressions can be the cause of pride, within the limitations that the idea of the subject must allow us to build associative connections directing the mind to the idea of self.
In the best moments when I'm directing, my mind speeds up and I'm more focused than I can ever be at any other time.
