A Quote by Carl Sandburg

The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

Carl Sandburg

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Duck Gets Grease Shot Squeaky Wheel Wheel

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Carl Sandburg
American - Poet
January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967

In my experience as a therapist and as a friend, it seems that the majority of the breakup resources available are for women and not men. Women, who tend to be more vocal about their emotional struggles, are the squeaky wheel that gets the grease from friends, from online communities, from books, and from therapeutic approaches.

Emily V. Gordon

Avoid the 'squeaky wheel gets the grease' habit of overreacting to the loudest feedback. The first time you hear a particular piece of feedback, treat it like a clue and do some investigating. Find out how deep it goes - maybe it stops at the surface and won't be an issue, maybe not.

Neil Blumenthal

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

John Peers

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

Josh Billings

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Josh Billings

I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.

Aimee Bender

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

Victor Gold

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

Josh Billings

We need to treat each other with consideration. In my world, the squeaky wheel does not get the grease.

Tim Gunn

My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.

Bun B

You know just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't make it right. So, that is up to us, the people that see the wrong, that see the injustice, that stay educated, stay informed, stay involved. And there's an old phrase 'the squeaky wheel, gets the oil.' Right now, our wheels aren't very squeaky; the other side, they're the ones making all the racket...We just have to get up, stand up, speak out, and don't be silent.

Otep Shamaya

You know, the squeaky wheel gets the oil, and my parents had spent a lifetime not making any noise, and I was like, what happens if I do this? What happens if I rock this? What then, you know? Will anybody listen?

Simu Liu

What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated

John E. Jones III

The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.