“What counts most is holding on.”

— Eric Hoffer

Entry (1961)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Context: What counts most is holding on. The growth of a train of thought is not a direct forward flow. There is a succession of spurts separated by intervals of stagnation, frustration, and discouragement. If you hold on, there is bound to come a certain clarification. The unessential components drop off and a coherent, lucid whole begins to take shape.

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American philosopher 1898–1983

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