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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.

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

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

– John D. Rockefeller

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

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

– Andrew Carnegie

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

– Louisa May Alcott

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

– Henry David Thoreau

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

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

– August Rush

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

– A wisdomism

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

– Bill Cosby

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Annie Dillard

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

– E.B. White

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

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

– Thomas Edison

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

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

– William James

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– Bruce Lee

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

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

– Groucho Marx

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

– Robert Frost

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– Thomas Edison

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

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

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

– Thomas Dunn

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Carlos Castaneda

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

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

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Optimism rules

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– Charles Darwin

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Corita Kent

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

– Magical

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

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

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

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

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

– Eckhart Tolle

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

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

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

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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 do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

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

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

– General Omar Bradley

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

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

– J.K. Rowling

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

– Lao Tzu

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Lewis Carroll

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– T.S. Eliot

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Avenida Margarita