• Columnists

Adrianne Hamilton, Singer and Managing Editor, Be Inkandescent Magazine

COLUMN = MUSIC

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.

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

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

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Anita Roddick

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Robert Frost

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

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

– Albert Einstein

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

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

– Gandi

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

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 want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

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

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

– Ajahn Chah

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

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

– Louisa May Alcott

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

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

– E.B. White

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

– Helen Keller

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Michelle Sedas

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

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

– Goldie Hawn

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison