阿莫斯不仅是一个乐观主义者。他本人成为一个乐观主义者，因为他认为悲观主义是愚蠢的。当您是一个悲观主义者时，发生了不好的事情，您两次都活着，Amos喜欢说。有一次，当您担心它，第二次发生时。
(Amos was not merely an optimist. He himself to be an optimist because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it and the second time when it happens.)