An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Institutions]

Capability means imagination...
~ Napoleon Hill - [Imagination]

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
~ Dean William R. Inge - [Institutions]

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
~ Napoleon Hill - [Imagination]

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the ''as if'' technique.
~ William James - [Imagination]

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
~ James Baldwin - [Institutions]

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
~ Joseph Joubert - [Imagination]

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith - [Institutions]

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Instinct]

Institutions -- government, churches, industries, and the like -- have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
~ Charles Horton Cooley - [Institutions]