'impetus for thinking' is a correct phrase in written English and is used to refer to something that encourages and motivates thought.
For example, "The professor's inspiring speech gave us an impetus for thinking about our future plans."
"The impetus for the idea was thinking how do we recreate this when we aren't connected to people anymore through our daily existence, when we are busy with work and family and everything is pulling us and taking us away from our life as an athlete," he says.
Adam Lehrer: I really love your ventriloquist series and the cowboy series and I was wondering if there was an impetus for you to start thinking about masculine roles and how they were equally as limiting as the domestic roles of femininity.
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, "I could invent another world.
While I understand the impetus for this kind of thinking, the question is far too simplistic.
While I understand the impetus for this kind of thinking, that is -- the way in which we seemingly need to chart human growth in linear terms, the question of "better off now" is, much like the discourse that immediately followed the 1992 uprising, far too simplistic.
Likewise, the primary impetus for the nation's ways of thinking has traditionally come from Paris.
Despite this fact, we continue to see the same, tired old debates crop up in the public eye, providing impetus for the insidious creep of creationist thinking into scientific education.
There's much more impetus for us to be correct, so we're thinking about that kind of interaction there, and how you could use audio to present information.
You might also be thinking, "What's this about the 'Impressionist Line'?" A big impetus for the Impressionists was challenging the moralizing idealism of the academy, whose neo-Classical aesthetics were founded on the drawing of perfect lines.
(I kept thinking about how, in a different sort of novel, these glimpses might provide the impetus for the entire book).
