Ron Williams

Many who know me or have worked for me are aware of my penchant for strategic planning. I consider it a critical component of the success of any organization and believe in the value of planning for a company's needs over multiple time horizons, as well as reviews against that plan at regular intervals.

American Businessman

Gayle Forman

When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

American Author

Gayle Lynds

Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.

Richard Paul Evans

I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

Kat Timpf

In fact, I can confidently say that 'South Park's' penchant for unbridled derision has been directly responsible for my own joy in some times of terrible sadness.

American Writer

Nolan North

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.

American Actor

Drea De Matteo

I have a penchant for playing characters that have been victimized repeatedly and still stood their ground and still remained unembittered.

American Actress

Jamie Cullum

A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn't work in a grown-up house.

English Musician

Jane Fonda

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

Patti Smith

I had a penchant myself for doing several things at once. I wanted to draw, write, speak.

American Musician

Penchant often implies a positive emotional connection to the preference.

Positive Emotion

'Penchant' suggests a more lasting or profound liking than casual preferences.

Not Casual

Use 'penchant' to describe personal tastes that shape someone's identity or choices.

Personal Taste

Penchant can refer to behaviors or activities done consistently and habitually.

Consistent Behavior

Using 'penchant' can suggest a tendency without stating it outright.

Subtle Implication

Sometimes 'penchant' is used lightly to criticise or point out a less desirable habit.

Potential Criticism

 are where you come from and let's have a conversation on a problem psychologists have known for decades for most of the century that if you if you cloak yourself in anonymity your that your penchant for being nastier and meaner grows and it's an odd I would say it's a

Neil deGrasse Tyson on...

 Murakami’s work blurs historical periods and draws from multiple cultural traditions. References to Western society and Japanese customs tumble over each other, from literature and fashion to food and ghost stories. He has a penchant for musical references, too,

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 but I've got a car note and rent and insurances and insurances and insurances and credit cards and credit debt and a loan and a bad tooth and a penchant for sushi, so I drop the "jerk" but keep the truth. "Tell me," he says,

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 as a result of too much carbon dioxide, say, we'll lose the source of as much as half of the oxygen we need to breathe. Then there's the smudge in future rocks. People's penchant for burning coal, oil, and natural gas

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 He returned home a gifted surgeon with a passion for anatomy and a penchant for showmanship. He gleefully entered public anatomy contests, eager to show up his fellow physicians. In one demonstration,

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 I mean, let's be I've got two hooks, prosthetic legs and a penchant for hard liquor. All I need is an eye-patch and a parrot, and I'm basically there. But I like being a pirate.

The perks of being a...

 Living with her family high above the ground in the northern tropical forests of Colombia, you will find Shakira, a cotton-top tamarin with a penchant for conversation.

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 madness perhaps nowhere is the dinosaurs penchant for turning the straight forward into the fantastic more striking than when it comes to war attacking

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 so my penchant for hugging other people's ermine they nicknamed dr. love I'm happy to share a little more love in the world it's great but here's your

Trust, morality -- and...

 So my penchant for hugging other people has earned me the nickname Dr. Love. I'm happy to share a little more love in the world, it's great,