Don Davis Quotations

We are pleased to have entered into this agreement to sell our stake in Progress Telecom to Level 3. We will continue to rely on Progress Telecom for transport and network management services that are critical to our business.

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

The only way I got through this point in my life was by the grace of God. I had done nothing to deserve getting picked up. I could have just been an average guy who once had a shot. But thanks to God, I'm where I am today.

Now you're a little more cautious if you or anybody starts coming down ill. It makes you think twice about renting a place, moving in to a place or buying a place.

There are situations where directors give composers directives just to give them directives Just to show 'who's boss in this room.'

Rohan has a strong throwing arm, so he was definitely able to give us the look when we faced big-armed quarterbacks who could throw the ball deep. He?s a professional. He always came in and did his job and you always want a guy like that, not someone with a bad attitude. He accepted his role knowing that he was behind Tom Brady and had to help get the defense together. He was competitive with it, and I think that helped. Those are the things that made him a good quarterback.

Locating our headquarters close to our businesses in the Midwest will significantly enhance the lines of communications within the company and increase the overall effectiveness of our operations.

That's the nature of the beast. This is the system. If your team doesn't want you and somebody else does, then you're going to get what you're looking for from that somebody else.

You look at your team, and sometimes you might have a weakness here or there, or you might make a mistake here or there, and it gets covered up by somebody else. This time, it didn't get covered up. Again, we'll go in, we'll make the corrections, and the special teams unit will be better.

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

The spine as a whole operates as a functional unit. Each vertabra can affect its neighbor and one portion of the spine may affect or damage other areas of the body.

I think that's the reality of the business. It's not about what you did. It's what have you done for me lately. We're in the production business. What you did before is irrelevant. Everyone knows that.

Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity. The degree these two have diminished is in direct proportion to the corruption and fall of the nation. Every problem that has arisen (sic) can be directly traced back to our departure from God's Law and the disenfranchisement of White men.

You can make excuses and say, 'Well, there are some new guys in there,' but you know what? A lot of these guys have been playing football for a long time. What it comes down to is beating your man and going and making the play. We didn't get that done.

We are taking a series of actions to combat these very difficult market conditions in automation controls. We are completing the realignment of our automation business previously announced in July. Early indications from the realignment are positive as we focus our marketing, sales and product development efforts on areas offering potentially higher growth.

Even my own buddies around the league tell me, 'Hey, you know what? I'm rooting for you, but I really don't want you to win.

Everybody had a tractor in the '40s. There's not much farming now. In the '40s and '50s you had more farmers than you had people working in the cities.

As stand-alone, world-renowned companies with leading market positions and outstanding employees, we believe these businesses will be better able to enhance their strategic positions, serve their customers and create value for their shareholders,

I've been around this business for a number of years and I don' t think I've ever seen something as precipitous as this slowdown,

I wanted to do what they have at the bank for my house. I wound up with something better.

Randle El is that kind of guy. He poses a lot of those same kind of problems. (But) this team reacts well to adversity ... This special teams unit will get better.

Our excellent third quarter results were driven by continued outstanding performance at Rockwell Collins and impressive gains in operating margins at Rockwell Automation compared to a year ago,

Adam's going to be missed, that's for sure. He's done a lot for this organization. Obviously, most definitely, he's going to be missed.

You should never violate your discharge standards, but it's difficult to know how we could have handled these improvements any other way.

It's just kind of grown. To do anything 14 years - after a while you kind of get it down.

It's going to be tough, ... but this team has reacted to adversity very well in the past and this will be no different.

It's great to see guys from this area and get to play against them. He seems like a competitive guy. In a game like that, there's always a lot of talking back and forth.

It's presumed that people can get by one week without employment.

I don't think I'm revealing any secrets when I say that Jet Li will be involved in the next two Matrix films, which means that the Kung-Fu action is going to be stepped-up significantly.

He said, she said -- you know how that goes.

The hard thing about TV is that you've go to write really fast and you have to make a small orchestra sound big. The great thing about TV is that the restrictions separate the boys from the men.

The dynamics of Semiconductor Systems are very different from Rockwell's other businesses, including its markets, products, and investment requirements.