Paul Hawken

Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.

American Environmentalist

John Quincy Adams

I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.

American President

Jed S. Rakoff

I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.

American Judge

William O. Douglas

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

Tom Stoppard

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

English Dramatist

Heather Mac Donald

Moreover, Hispanics' sympathy for big government represents a cultural predilection as well as an economic one.

American Editor

Ray Stevenson

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

British Actor

Ann Coulter

Different cultures have different predilections for different kinds of crime.

American Journalist

James Payn

For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.

English Novelist

Julien Baker

Everyone I know has a predilection for sharing words.

American Musician

A predilection can be an internal bias that may not be immediately evident to others.

Not Always Obvious

Predilections can sometimes reflect cultural influences or upbringing.

Cultural Predilections

Predilection often implies a choice made based on personal taste.

Chosen Preference

 all snakes are carnivores but certain ones like this king cobra in southern India have a predilection for other snakes in this case a rat snake humans often confuse the rat snake with the

Cobra vs. Rat Snake PIPE...

 those individuals who were not carriers of any genetic protection would have been more likely to die. This winnowing effect together with a strong cultural predilection