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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.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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

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

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– Tony Robbins

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

– Aristotle

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

– Helen Keller

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

– John D. Rockefeller

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

– Michelle Sedas

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

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

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

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

– Avenida Margarita

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

– Louisa May Alcott

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

– African Proverb

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– Charles R. Swindoll

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

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

– Zig Ziglar

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

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

– Byron Katie

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Magical

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– Steven Schussler

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

– E.B. White

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Booker T. Washington

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi