Jane McGonigal

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.

American Designer

Frank Mir

In the future, I'd like to break more into acting and stuff. I think that pro wrestling is a great springboard, really. You see a lot of guys coming from that world. In a lot of ways, it's like live theater. Guys going out there and performing and having to act on the fly and be their own stuntmen at the same time.

American Mixed Martial Artist

Christina Tosi

As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.

American Chef

Malorie Blackman

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.

British Writer

Laura Osnes

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.

American Actress

Albert Finney

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.

British Actor

Janet Leigh

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.

Charlotte Rampling

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.

French Actress

Gore Vidal

An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.

American Novelist

Chris Thile

Tradition matters. To me it's not a limiting force; it's a springboard.

American Musician

Refers to an actual board used in sports for jumping.

Physical Object

Used mainly in gymnastics or diving to gain momentum.

Sports Equipment

Emphasizes the board’s elasticity to propel someone upwards.

Spring Mechanism

This is a metaphor for something that propels you into a new situation.

Metaphorical Launch

Used to describe a chance that opens doors to further opportunities.

Opportunity Creation

Often refers to using past experiences to advance or improve.

Prior Experience

 to fund costly end of pipe solutions which incidentally are often located in environmental justice communities like mine and they provide habitats for our little friends so so cool anyway the demonstration project is a springboard for our own green roof installation business bringing jobs a

Greening the ghetto -...

 kind of shelter him and nurture him and then as he became more comfortable then he started taking the younger children surfing and if the dad of the family couldn't go and take the child surfing he'd ask Kurt to and Kurt would take the child that was his springboard was the

The Remarkable Story of...

 But -- It's interesting you call it a benefit. Benefit in that it gave me that springboard. I mean that I could think how foolish it was to say to this crying nine-year-old boy, "You're the man of the house now." And then I was crying, and then he said,

Springboard