A Quote by Tyler Cowen

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.' — © Tyler Cowen
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the most important half that applies to himself, when he begins his approach to a subject with the proper mental attitude. The optimist may not understand, or if he understands he may not agree with, prevailing ideas; but he believes, yes, knows, that in the long run and in due course there will prevail whatever is right and best.
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.
I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
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