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It's a good update, but it's not quite enough to satisfy a more optimistic Street.

This uncertainty about what Microsoft is going to do with the cash has been hanging over the stock for a couple of years. A buyback would be a signal that management is optimistic with the price of its own stock.

This underpins our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic on the growth outlook and will eventually end up trimming interest rates by a further 25 basis points.

We cannot say when it will be on the market. Those who are very optimistic are saying at the end of 2007.

According to the National Homebuilders Association, that is a heroic assumption. We're really being optimistic with that figure.

A big 500 acre field of grass. This is where birds will come in and stage a lot of times before they actually go out and feed. But a lot of times they go out and feed on this grass itself. So there is a lot of traffic in here and I am real optimistic we are going to get a lot of birds in here.

It's frustrating. It kind of drains you, but I've got to be optimistic about our season. It's unfortunate because this is how we make our living, too. It's a big payday, big PR to come and win a race like California Speedway and lots of points on the line.

It's going to be a good time. This team works so well together. It's going to be a little sad to see some of the boys drop out and not move on, but I think all the kids are really optimistic about the outcome this weekend.

It's an optimistic speech that tries to paint a future for Asia, that shows how many of the ideals that we are talking about complement Asia's own agenda and should bring Asia together.

It's gonna be a long haul. But he's fighting really hard. He's young, strong and fit and so we're optimistic about a complete recovery.

It's been a rough six months. But I believe the stock will mirror the performance of the company. I am optimistic the company will continue to perform very well and investors will recognize that over time.

This is the most optimistic I've been in a long time. I've got some unfinished business.

This is the most optimistic manufacturing survey we've seen in some time.

This is a very positive step. We will still have to see how the diplomatic conference goes next week, but I am reasonably optimistic after the arrangement concluded today.

They're more optimistic about the costs ... than we are.

They're optimistic about the second half, and I think that's reasonable.

They're optimistic that he could be fine game time. Certainly, if the doctors say he can't go, he can't go. But he has not been healthy, and you have to be healthy to play this game and this position.

They (residents) are optimistic the five of us (including Mayor Mark Abbott) will work together and do things for the whole city, not just special interests. It's a tremendous honor, it really is, to know how the people feel.

If companies are not giving optimistic guidance, that's causing some ripples and some concerns in the market.

I am not optimistic in the least. I think that our vaccine supply this year will be equal to or less than last year,

I am not pessimistic or optimistic but I am realist about trying to get support from colleagues to the bill.

I am optimistic about Iraq, I think in five to 10 years we will see it becoming stable.

I am optimistic about most of the stocks in the market because I think it's only the Dow and the transports that have a negative profile right now. We've evaluated and came up with 10 sectors that we thought were positioned the best in the year 2000, and moving forward in terms of providing leadership in the economy. And then in that

I am optimistic and I expect that we will reach an overall agreement with everybody for a complete cease-fire in all the territories,

I am optimistic and the chip' has been changed, because the Vuelta is a different race, ... It has nothing to do with the (Tour) from a month ago.

I am optimistic but I know that only with true hard work on the details will we be able to win.

I am optimistic Rachel's inclusion will provide greater attacking penetration down the left, and Sally's inclusion gives us good flexibility in our selection.

I am optimistic that all the parties will show up. I think they would hesitate before trying the (NATO) mandate.

I am optimistic that these talks won't collapse.

I am optimistic that this co-operation will help us to accelerate the process of determination of final status.

I am optimistic that this unified effort by our softball delegation will show Mr. Rogge and the IOC members that almost three months after the vote, we remain committed to getting our sport back on the 2012 program.

I am optimistic that we will achieve solutions that will be agreed upon by all, ... We still have a week ahead, and when you multiply the number of hours in this week, you will see we have enough time.

I believe he'll be an everyday shortstop with a chance to be a very good offensive player. He's still very young and has plenty to learn. I saw stuff that he did at the plate that I loved. I think he's going to get better hitting-wise. I'm real optimistic about his future.

I continue to feel optimistic about the internal, fundamental factors (in China's economy).

I couldn't be more optimistic than I am now. I am real excited, and I feel I have something to prove.

However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect any radical breakthroughs.

I am more optimistic than most we can achieve change. True. I have not been here to see 30 years of deterioration - but I know there are proven police mechanisms, and that when put in place, things will get better.

He's now into strengthening exercises and he's doing some soft tossing, going through the motion of throwing the ball. They're very optimistic that he's on schedule.

I am very pleased how things have fallen into place. My family and I have such fond feelings for the university, the people and the athletic program. I believe this shows a commitment for continued growth for the program and validates that we are on the right path. This sort of stuff serves all of us as an opportunity to get optimistic and anxious as we look to the coming season and beyond.

I do think that when clouds roll in, it takes a while for them to roll out of the sky even though a lot of good work has been done underneath, ... We're optimistic that, given time and the right type of exposure, the Street will begin to see real value there.

Heading into camp, I know there were a of questions. But I think we answered a lot of them. I think guys are a lot more optimistic based on how things have gone so far, what we've seen. I think we're starting to gel.

The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

I think that's why I'm so well-suited to this time, because I think the values reflect really profound American values, and I think my agenda would be the best way to really get Americans once again to feel more confident and more optimistic about our future and deliver results, which I think is what it's about.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it-that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.

You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand. Find a way of eagerly anticipating future changes, while at the same time you are in love and satisfied with who, what, where and how you be.

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows.

The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good news and wishful thinking to bad news; and that there are always vested interests to offer facile, optimistic alternatives to the bad news.

Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble and you’ll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you’ll have World War III. Been there, done that!

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

It`s human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?

Things are always better in the morning.

I'm an optimist. I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past. And I also believe I have a role in that. The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change. I can do better. If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.

I think you need optimism. I believe that's incredibly important that you be optimistic that you can do things different and still do them just as well. That's very important to success - just to have a positive outlook. I know it's not easy to do that.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.

I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am trying to be optimistic] it's even a good thing, to be going through all of this, if only to be reminded that history hasn't stopped - human existence is as fundamentally unmanageable now as it ever was.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

I want to win.We're not going on win by doing what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do each and every day. Dividing the country. Saying, creating a grievance kind of environment. We're going to win when we unite people with a hopeful, optimistic message. I have that message because I was a governor of a state that saw people lifted up, because we had high sustained economic growth.

Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

We live in the best of all possible worlds

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I’m optimistic.

The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.

I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.

In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

I do remain optimistic that one day the world will realise that carbon dioxide is more of a friend than an enemy to the earth's flora and fauna, and I do seriously believe that, given the extraordinary complexity of the natural forces controlling our climate, which have done so for millions of years, the only sensible policy response to the natural process of climate change is prudent and cost-effective adaptation.

I took a learjet to cop some lipstick Yeah Imma risk it I'm optimistic

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human and emotional and psychic damage. That's not going to go away. But that said, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that we're looking at a better future.

There's something really happening and really moving, and it's exciting and it makes me very optimistic because it is going to be the engine for how we really combat climate change. Which is strong communities.

Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.

Purify your heart and clean it from all earthly matters. The time of fun and waste has gone. The time of judgment has arrived. Hence we need to utilize those few hours to ask God for forgiveness. You have to be convinced that those few hours that are left you in your life are very few. From there you will begin to live the happy life, the infinite paradise. Be optimistic. The prophet was always optimistic.

Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.

America needs optimistic leadership to revive national soul.

It's just my maybe naive, optimistic view that whatever knowledge we gain, and if it comes to pass that we can somehow understand what consciousness is, if we can somehow create that, it will ultimately be used for the good.

We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.

I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism.

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

If you are feeling overly optimistic the Republican Candidates Debate is on.

I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will make me feel better or keep me alive? Well, there never was anything he could say, that's the funny thing. It was all the stupid, desperately optimistic, condescending things he didn't say that kept me alive; all the compassion and wamrth I felt from him that could not have been said; all the intelligence, competence, and time he put into it; and his granite belief that mine was a life worth living.