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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.

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

– Albert Einstein

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Lord Chesterfield

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

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

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

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

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

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

– Aristotle

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

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

– Abraham Lincoln

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– James Madison

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

– Charles Darwin

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Michelle Sedas

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Bruce Lee

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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"

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

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

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

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

– Ajahn Chah

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

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

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Francesca Reigle

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

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

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

– Robert H. Schuller

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– William James

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

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

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb