As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.