Optimism
* also reflects on bottom-line business profit
  - relates to setting and maintaining goals
* appears as a moral imperative
  - to be socially desirable in all communities
* can also help stop violence.
* can be a self fulfilling prophesy
  - contagious
* characteristic that is the basis of positive thinking.
* faith that leads to success.
* force multiplier.
* helps people look at the better side of things
  - pay attention to useful negative information
* ignores the dilemma of human suffering by making evil and misery part of a perfect world.
* includes initiative and long-term thinking.
* increases happiness for it is contagious
  - with income and education
* is about thinking non-negatively, rather than thinking positively
  - an attitude to life that prevents people from becoming apathetic, or giving up hope
  - as justifiable as pessimism
  - associated with mood, coping and immune changes in response to stress
  - based on observation of positive possibilities in the external world
  - compulsory to the one who lives in Spirit and in Truth
  - dispositions
  - due to the nature of investments
  - essential to promotability
  - faith in people, in the human potential
  - infectious when positive results are seen
  - merely a state of mind
  - more an innate predisposition to view the world in a certain way
  - regarded as a stable personal trait that buffer against stress and ill health
  - related to self-esteem and life satisfaction in rural college undergraduates
* is the assumption that everything is going to go well
  - faith that leads to achievement
  - only productive way to think
  - ultimate perception
  - wholeness and health
* is, in part, the ability to compromise with the facts of life.
* leads to better moods, better health and longer life.
* learned behavior.
* means believing that positive results are likely.
* methodology or technology that can be learned.
* strategy for making a better future.
* tends to reflect a person's outlook on life and their personality.
* word that comes from a Latin word meaning the best.

Obedience training
* helps make dogs more manageable and responsive to commands.
* is essential in preventing aggression in dogs
  - important for any dog being adopted into a new home
  - very important in a relationship with a new or old dog
* keeps dogs safe.
* starts when they are young.

Optical flow
* Any optical flow is simply the projection of the scene flow onto the image plane of a camera.
* is the apparent motion of brightness patterns between images.
* measure of the apparent flow of brightness in a sequence of images.

Oxali
* All oxalis have foliage that closes at night or on cloudy days.
* are perennials, most of which can go dry in the summer.
* grow from bulbs, rhizomes or tubers, depending on the variety.

Organizational change
* involves people.
* is about changing each individual, one at a time
  - really about people change
* shift in the processes underway in a corporation.
* slow and often discontinuous process in a complex organization.

Ohmic heating
* can enhance food quality by limiting heat damage to the sauce and food particles.
* has the advantage to heat materials rapidly and uniformly.
* is an efficient way of processing foods containing large solid particulates.

Osmium tetroxide
* has a strong odor resembling chlorine and rotting raddishes.
* highly toxic powerful oxidizing agent with a strong odor.
* is chemical compounds
  - noncombustible, use extinguishing media appropriate for the surrounding fire
  - regarded as a substance with poor warning properties
  - very toxic and the only important commercial compound of osmium
* powerful oxidising agent with a strong smell.