Springboards Quotes

• 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

  Nature, Drama, Wind Blowing

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• The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

  Andre Gide

  Artist, Greatness, Obstacles

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.54, Routledge

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• 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

  Challenges, World, Limits

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Certainly, none of us enjoy going through struggles, but you have to understand that your struggle may be an opportunity for advancement and promotion. The very thing you are fighting against so tenaciously may be the springboard that catapults you to a new level of excellence. Your challenges may become your greatest assets.

  Joel Osteen

  Struggle, Fighting, Opportunity

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• Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful.

  Michelle Ryan

  Taken, Actors, Want

  "Michelle Ryan - Is this the end of her Hollywood dream?". www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2008.

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• 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

  Writing, Perfect, Goddess

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• Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it-not behind, but as a springboard to something better.

  Paul Levinson

  Space, Civilization, Perspective

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• 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

  Jobs, Men, Hands

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• Your deeper sense isn’t a springboard; it’s a landing place. If you draw conclusions too quickly or too slowly, you’ll establish your self where it doesn’t belong. The fine line between the two is in your own deeper sense. It is in your actual knowing within that deeper sense.

  John de Ruiter

  Self, Two, Knowing

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• Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Real, Adversity, Essence

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• 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

  Imagination, Interesting, Important

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• I don't see the script as just a springboard for my interpretation. You do your best to serve the vision writers have - not by removing yourself from the equation, but by trying to filter what they intended through your artistry.

  Joe Mantello

  Vision, Trying, Filters

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• I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.

  Loreena McKennitt

  Creating, Creative, Use

  Website notes to "The Mask And Mirror" on official site, loreenamckennitt.com.

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• [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

  Girl, Years, Lauren

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Grateful, Forever, Might

  Source: 411mania.com

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• And then, what I hope will happen at the end is that there will be a big enough springboard that, if we chose to go for a second season, we would have one. But, there will be none of those maddening teases that we're going to tell you the answers and then we don't tell you the answers. That gave NBC the idea of making it a mini-series.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Nbc, Ideas, Answers

  Source: collider.com

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• Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

  Brian Tracy

  Imagination, Energy, Wealth Creation

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.31, Jaico Publishing House

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• Rosie Grier was the springboard to the return of my life.

  John Carlos

  Return, Rosie

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  People, Funny People, Peril

  "Paul Feig talks 'Ghostbusters,' 'Geeks'". Interview by Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 14, 2015.

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• Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Expectations, Achievement

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• I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."

  Shelley Long

  Cheer, Writing, Years

  Source: www.gq.com

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• 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

  Events, Able, Kind

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• 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

  Book, Reading, Opening Up

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2018

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• 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

  Achievement, Excellence, Ongoing

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• My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

  John Hurt

  Taken, Scripts, Novel

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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