Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
Impossibility is a dictionary word.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Things are more like today than they have ever been before.
Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.
According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion.
Today is reality. Yesterday is history.