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Adrianne Hamilton, Singer and Managing Editor, Be Inkandescent Magazine

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Adrianne Hamilton is a PR Specialist at Inkandescent Public Relations, where she works closely with clients to get them into the news. She’s also the managing editor of Be Inkandescent Magazine.

She has spent decades working in marketing and sales positions, working as the director of market research, designing logical databases, heading up meeting facilitations, and raising funds for charitable organizations. Adrianne received a Bachelor of Science degree in Italian from Georgetown University in 1990, then went on to get a Master of Arts degree in Italian Literature from New York University. She is fluent in Spanish and Italian.

A rock star at heart, Adrianne is the lead singer of the rock band, Longtooth, and the acoustic Americana band, The Parklawn Ramblers. Although she admits being in a band is one of the great achievements of her life, her proudest accomplishment is being mom to her three children.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant