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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.

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

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

– Arundhati Roy

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

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

– Anita Roddick

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Jack Kerouac

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Bruce Lee

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

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

– James Madison

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

– Martha Beck

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

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

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald