"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." ― Jack Kerouac Topic(s): Great More From Jack Kerouac "A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world." "Write in recollection and amazement for yourself." "I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life." More In Great "Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."― Aesop "The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’"― Sigmund Freud "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."― Ernest Hemingway