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The Inkandescent Speakers Bureau

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At InkandescentSpeakers.com, our professional speakers are some of the most knowledgeable business experts, been-there-done-that entrepreneurs, corporate and government leaders, visionary educators, and veteran futurists who can give you a glimpse at what is ahead on the horizon.

With wit and a sense of humor, our experienced speakers offer best practices and insights into the hottest trends in business, and organizational, professional, and personal development through corporate keynotes, workshops, seminars, webinars, lunch-and-learns, and networking events.

Speeches feature:

Topics that are important to the growth of your organization: foresight and innovation, the generations at work, best practices in hiring and recruiting—as well as the future of education, leadership, management, marketing, PR, financial planning, and more.

Insight and guidance that is needed by entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and corporate managers—as well as career changers and college grads who are entering the workforce.
Inspirational ideas that are concrete as well as motivational, and that help professionals develop a clear strategy to accomplish their long- and short-term goals.

We look forward to meeting you—and inspiring your team and audience!Hope Katz Gibbs, founder, Inkandescent Speakers

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– African Proverb

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

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

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

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

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

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

– Lao Tzu

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

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

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

– Francesca Reigle

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

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

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

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

– Christopher Morley

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

– Voltaire

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Martha Beck

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– Jimi Hendrix

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Albert Schweitzer

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

– Charles Dickens

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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