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In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

It is far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you are selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that is correct, because there is an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

Yes, I have listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I have wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I am more direct and outspoken.

I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I am going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I have managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I am in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

I suppose if I do got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it Does not plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I have never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.

I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I am on stage!

I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.