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Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash. -- Robin S. Sharma
Vampires were an excellent springboard. I still love them; they fascinate me. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents. -- Gore Vidal
Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful. -- Michelle Ryan
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard. -- Robert Plant
Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way. -- Daniel Breaker
Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with. -- Charlotte Rampling
I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me. -- Kate Winslet
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction. -- Janet Leigh
We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life. -- Albert Finney
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write. -- Joan D. Vinge
Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms. -- Milton Avery
I let the whole 'Grease' experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It's taken a lot of work and perseverance. -- Laura Osnes
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My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo. -- Dorothy Hamill
Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters. -- Tom Hiddleston
Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail. -- Charles Edison
I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories. -- Malorie Blackman
What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point. -- Malorie Blackman
If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this is just a springboard for when I'm finished. It's just a game. It's pretty silly when you think about it: two grown men punching each other in the face and taking it seriously. -- Mark de Mori
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised. -- Brian Eno
Surveys of thousands of gamers have shown that they're more likely to play real music if they play a music videogame. So it's an interesting relationship where the games aren't replacing something we do in real life, they're serving as a springboard to a goal we might have in real life, like learning to play an instrument. -- Jane McGonigal
The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on. -- Miranda Richardson
Expectation is the springboard of achievement. -- Ngaio Marsh
Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity. -- Charlie Rose
Rosie Grier was the springboard to the return of my life. -- John Carlos
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. -- Andre Gide
Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles. -- Richard Branson
Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa. -- Harold MacMillan
My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel... . -- John Hurt
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone. -- Mary Pope Osborne
Soaps might not be the most highly regarding medium but it was a crucial springboard for me and I am forever grateful for it. -- Sherri Saum
Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world. -- Erwin McManus
Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish. -- Brian Tracy
A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives. -- Jane McGonigal
[Townies] was a great springboard, obviously, because Jenna [Elfman] went from that to Dharma & Greg, and a few years later, Lauren [Graham] went to Gilmore Girls. -- Eric McCormack
To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier. -- Paul Feig
Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with -- Charlotte Rampling
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction." -- Janet Leigh
Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard. -- Narendra Modi
...try to not be disappointed in anything. Know that life is showing up perfectly in every moment. Today's disappointment could be tomorrow's springboard to all that you've ever wanted. In fact, it probably is. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Often I don't read novels. The script is more important, that's the springboard to your imagination, really. Peripheral information can be interesting to read but you can't use it when it's not in the script. -- John Hurt

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