Definition of Springboard

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Definition of Springboard
	Springboard An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising. Related Definitions: Agility, An, At, Board, By, Elastic, End, Exercising, In, Of, Often, One, Or, Performing, Secured, The, Used

Springboard Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

Springboard Translations

springboard in German is Sprungbrett

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