You don’t get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it.
I am very hard on myself. I know the slightest loss of concentration, the slightest mistake will be punished. I try to limit it as much as possible.
This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.
My argument is not that I shouldn’t have been punished, but that the punishment didn’t fit the crime.
My experiences have also convinced me that sexual harassment is very rarely publicly punished after it is reported, and then only after a pattern of relatively egregious offenses.
Very few checklist liberals will focus on transformational work if they are rewarded or punished only for their transactional work.
I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‘call attention to yourself,’ or ‘think you were smart.’ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.
When I was teaching I’d go to some schools where no one wanted to dance – when they came into the room it was as though they were being punished. But I’d put on the loudest, the heaviest metal you could imagine and they loved it.
Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.
I love chess very much. I love the game, the challenges. I could motivate myself as I was curious about how to improve every game. In chess, it’s very clear that if you make a mistake you are punished. If you play well, you win.
I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.
Very deliberately, the central bankers have punished savers, pushing interest rates so low that any truly safe investment – and older people are always advised to play it safe – yields a negative return when inflation is factored in.
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, ‘Man, you were so honest – can’t you have some fun? Can’t you do some really down and dirty lying?’ But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I’ll be punished.
There are three things. Either somebody invested Rs 5 crore or somebody loaned this much money. The third thing is that Rajpal Yadav was involved in a fraud. Only one of these three things can be right. Please let me know which of these I am getting punished for.
Sometimes on the outside courts we’d play and guys would get into fights. I never backed down, even if the guy was stronger and I’d get punished.
It’s a lonely position and those are the margins you play in as a goalkeeper – you simply cannot make mistakes because you will be punished.
If we are going to ban players for alleged dives, its time there was a panel of ex-managers and players who put blundering referees on trial – and absolute howlers should be punished with a ban, the same as retrospective action against players.
In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs.
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