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This is a company that has everything going right for it, at least for now, ... History has shown that investors are always optimistic about the company. At the same time, the stock does sell off quickly when sales begin to look shaky.

The guys aren't down. We still have a good season going, I'm optimistic about our schedule coming up. If we can stay healthy, I'm confident we can make a run in the conference tournament this month.

The cheerleaders talk about the economy growing, but the economy grew at 7 percent from 1966 to 1982, while stocks went nowhere because valuations were too optimistic. And they're optimistic now, by historic measurements.

The unions made it clear they are willing to work with us. When we... develop a strategic initiative, the unions will be the first to know what the plan is and how they will be able to help. I am extremely optimistic we will get through these economic challenges.

The irony is that while most of us are optimistic about our futures, the reality is clear that accident and disability are more likely to impact us than we care to acknowledge. Clearly workers with employment disability benefits have an edge, and those that plan for their own individual needs are also ahead of the game.

The macro environment is affecting technology. You've gone from where people were overly optimistic about tech to where people are looking for change.

The major change we saw over the quarter was that investors were getting more optimistic about the economic growth outlook globally . . . The mood has swung from: 'What's next after Russia and Brazil?' to: 'Just how far is the U.S., the world's largest economy, going to grow?,'

The market got a little optimistic and ahead of itself anticipating the end of rate hikes. The market will churn sideways for the immediate future.

Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui; this was, after all, where she and my father, then penniless yet oddly optimistic newlyweds, honeymooned in 1969.

The finance minister is assuming an optimistic outlook for tax revenues, especially corporate taxes. He expects corporate tax collection to increase a hefty 28.4 percent, despite indications that industrial activity is rolling over. Perhaps he is betting on improving compliance.

The financial support our campaign is finding makes clear that Republicans are both eager for a change of leadership and a campaign that can win. I could not be more optimistic that my campaign for change will be successful in May.

The coaching staff is optimistic about this year's club. Nine of our 18 players are returning from last year's roster and we have some quality additions who will also have an immediate impact.

The first time around, I was pretty optimistic that he'd come back. With two back-to-back rotator cuff tears, you just wonder how good the quality of the healing will be in that area.

The commentary was a lot more optimistic than I expected it to be given the high oil prices. The outlook was also a little more optimistic than I would have expected.

The Commission is still optimistic that a deal can be reached. We have concerns because some member states are more dependent on Russian gas than others.

The company issued three contradictory media releases concerning its forecasts. An overly optimistic forecast was made on February 28 and on April 28 the profit was downgraded to 20 per cent below the 2003-04 results.

The company delivered a profit report that surpassed even the most optimistic expectations.

The competition is pretty fierce with everyone gearing up for the NCAA Championships. The conditions were less than ideal, but we are optimistic for tomorrow.

I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

The key point is that they're finally really positive on the economy and really optimistic that this inflation is under check. What do you have backing that today? You have news that factory orders are strong.

The danger is being overly optimistic about how long it takes to do that.

You could see double-digit market growth in '06. My guess is there's some bumps along the way, but I'm more optimistic about '06 than I was about '05.

You'd expect most companies to be fully optimistic about what the World Cup has to offer for them and indicate that there's a big opportunity there.

This is my 11th year (at USC) and I've never been as optimistic as I am now. We've dominated instate recruiting the past three years, and I expect us to win quickly.

This is a good, strong list of stores. With all these stores, it speaks to the overall health of the market. These are not stores that just decide on a whim to open, so they are optimistic about the region going forward.

[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am optimistic enough to believe that the next scourge to disappear will be large-scale warfare-killed by the existence and nonuse of nuclear weapons.

Of this you may be certain: The Lord especially loves righteous women-women who are not only faithful but filled with faith, women who are optimistic and cheerful because they know who they are and where they are going, women who are striving to live and serve as women of God.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do.

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

My approach is that fashion must always be optimistic, and that a woman will always be enticed by beautiful clothes.

Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness -- that is, the improbable -- with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.

It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward section - like me - has been nominated as a Prime Ministerial candidate.

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

These are optimistic times in the Middle East. The iron wall that has defined Israel's relations with most of the Arab and Muslim world for generations is coming down,

I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

The vicar, whose name is Reverend Waite, leads us in prayers that all begin with 'O Lord' and end with our somehow not being worthy-sinners who have always been sinners and will forever more be sinners until we die. It isn't the most optimistic outlook I've ever heard but we're encouraged to keep trying anyway.

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

It's not done yet, but I'm optimistic that we can get it done.

It's too early to predict a sellout. But we're highly optimistic that we're going to set some really big crowds that are pro-Braves.

It's looking pretty bad right now. I can't do much more than a moderate walk. I've never had this type of injury before. I'm just trying to be as optimistic as possible, but it's hard to be optimistic. It was hard Saturday.

It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.

It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm.

It pushes him back. How long, I can't say. He's a starter, so we have to build him up. Dr. Watkins was very optimistic that he'll be back for us at some point. I just don't know when.

It puts us in the poor house. I'm still optimistic that we can come out with something along the lines of last year's situation, but frankly National Marine Fishery Service has really dropped the ball on this.

It's very disappointing because he had to overcome the shoulder injuries. He's expected to play next year and we're optimistic that'll be the case.

It might. But that is an optimistic point of view. Optimism is not a good thing to base your financing on.

It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big.

As we head into the second day, I am more optimistic that we will be able to resolve this issue with the (European) Commission.

The numbers Visa has seen over the Friday and Saturday period are encouraging, but we will continue to watch over the next several weeks to see if the positive trends hold true, ... Based on the data Visa has seen to date, we remain cautiously optimistic that this will be a good holiday season for merchants.

The numbers were nothing too special, it wasn't the most optimistic reading, ... We're just seeing a lot of resilience today. Some people are coming back in and buying on the new quarter.

That's something we have not had in the past. I'm very confident that with Willi, Kevin and Tim driving the process, they'll be able to work through the politics of Poplar Point. We're optimistic about a new stadium, more optimistic than ever before.

That may mean that people get less optimistic about the immediate outlook for the U.S. economy. Some of the data for the past month has been fairly upbeat. We don't think retail sales will fall into that pattern.

It's still too early. I'm probably going to take a couple of days off. The thing that makes me a little optimistic is it didn't happen on one movement. I didn't hear anything click; I didn't hear anything snap.

This plan to consolidate manufacturing, cut operating expenditures, and freeze pensions seems like a bold step, in-line with our optimistic views for possible savings.

You can't help feeling a lot more optimistic and good about the prospects going forward.

The year 2005 was truly memorable for participants in the South African truck market. Sales volumes have consistently edged ahead of the most optimistic initial forecasts, and once the trend of strong growth had been established early in the year, the market consistently delivered near-record monthly performances. As it turned out, the year-on-year growth of 31,7% recorded this year completely eclipsed the 27,5% achievement which had, understandably, excited participants at the end of 2004.

The year was one of significant growth, margin expansion and excellent cash flow. We're optimistic about 2006 and confident in our ability to continue producing the type of consistent earnings growth for which we're known.

There's a chance he'll pitch for us late in the second half. We're cautiously optimistic for a full recovery.

There were some problems, but I am optimistic that these problems can be solved, because they will have to be solved, because without this cooperation, we will not have the full picture.

There were stories about how we used to wait days at the Winter Olympics between winning medals. We're optimistic that those days are behind us now.

It's early, but we're optimistic these great new products will be successful.

There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.

It was devastating, but I know Clint. He's the most optimistic person I know, almost to a fault ... You knew if anyone could best this, it would be him.

It's just typical day-before-the-holiday trading. The economic numbers that came out this morning weren't enough to sway people to be overly optimistic or overly pessimistic.

We certainly remain optimistic and we have a week left before the end of the session. And we're hopeful it will be passed before the end of the session.

We don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with the business. I think that longer term we remain very optimistic about the business, but it has been challenging recently.

We expected a strong opening, but the response was significantly better than even our most optimistic projections.

We're very happy with the document that the seven states have agreed on, and we're optimistic that the Department of Interior will adopt the states' position.

We're very optimistic about both games. But at this point, I think it's way too early for me to predict a sellout.

We're very optimistic about our ability to raise that and more. There is a lot of community interest in the medical school.

We're very optimistic about the third quarter and beyond, ... We have seen no slowing of our business, even though we believe that the U.S. economy and the PC industry are slowing. Our business is not at all correlated with the PC industry. We are fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.

We're very optimistic about this year. We're off to a great start.

We're very optimistic that Deion will be here. He's in good shape. I don't have to run him in a 40 to see he's OK.

We're very optimistic that it will be, but you have to go through the process.

We're very optimistic that nanotechnology can markedly improve cancer therapy.

We're very optimistic with Travis. Less so with Todd.

It was the consensus that anyone who was going to be playing and having an important role this year was behind the coach. We're optimistic about this season; there's a lot to prove after last year.

It was in acknowledgment of his rich history here that we wanted to give him an opportunity to coach in the Big East and to have a wonderful sort of termination of his career at the University of Cincinnati. Obviously that didn't turn out to be a viable option for him, but I'm optimistic about the future of our program.

It was a sad thing what happened to Kenny. The good part is that he has healed up. What his football future is, I can't tell you right now. I'm somewhat optimistic about it. He will be there with us Sunday. He has had an emotional impact on this football team before he was hurt and certainly after the injury. My hope and prayer is that he will be able to continue playing football next year.