Springboards Quotes

#1. No one can predict at the outset where the life stream will lead, but those moments of fissure, rupture, diversion, and frustration require choice and can become springboards to opportunity.

Virginia Scharff

#2. There are no roadblocks, only springboards.

Brent Smith

#3. I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books.

Michael Scott

#4. Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Brian Tracy

#6. Truth and logic could serve as springboards for psychosis.

Jonathan Kellerman

#7. People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge?

Max Allan Collins

#8. Only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.

Gary Keller

#9. May I be mindful both making and keeping commitments that they be springboards to liberation, instead of suffering, for all sentient beings.

Gay Hendricks

#10. Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

Pierre Bourdieu

#11. Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

Karl Marx

#12. My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

Doris Lessing

#13. Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

Joyce Carol Oates

#14. Jeb suddenly looked right at me, and something in those flinty eyes made me want to back away, snarling. "You don't mind, do you girl?"
"Not at all," I replied, staring him down, "if you ask me nicely!

Julie Kagawa

#15. Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

Ngaio Marsh

#16. Knowing a lot ... is a springboard to creativity.

Charlie Rose