"direction to think" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the overall opinion or attitudes of a group or the public in general. For example, "There has been a definite shift in the direction to think about climate change over the past decade."
Still, critics had argued that it was unrealistic for someone as powerful as the treasury secretary, whose remarks could potentially affect everything from tax policy to market direction, to think he could avoid all issues relevant to Alcoa, a $23 billion-a-year billion-a-year billion-a-yearountries.
After that I was able to change the direction to think, the direction to work and I think it was like training I did.
Perhaps high-tech societies veer in the other direction: preferring to think small and miniaturize, rather than scale up.
It seems that I lack a natural understanding for what is matter of course and obvious to others... Every person knows how to behave, to take a direction, or to think something specific... [A]ll these involve rules that the person follows.
That's why Obama's speech was such an important step in the right, I mean left, direction — as, come to think of it, was Bill Clinton's virtuoso performance at the Democratic Convention.
So, actually, having gone a little bit in that direction, I began to think it's more interesting to really stick to the historical point of view.
He elaborated and systematized the work undertaken by Confucius and Mencius, giving a cohesiveness, comprehensiveness, and direction to Confucian thought that was all the more compelling for the rigour with which he set it forth; and the strength he thereby gave to that philosophy has been largely responsible for its continuance as a living tradition for over 2,000 years.
In this direction, it is natural to think of developing various types of affinity grids as structure-friendly alternatives to thin carbon films.
What did you think of standing beneath your own tree?" "I looked around the landscape, to the far horizon in each direction, and I tried to think how I would write about the great expanse of this place...about how I could relay the feeling of being here, standing here, out in the open plain, with the savannah all around.
I would like to think the direction we'll move in is to use technology in a way that enhances and extends our understanding and use of sex".
Though Ms. Krausz's feminist spin on the sexploitation genre is not nearly as revisionist as she seems to think, her direction is almost accidentally avant-garde.
