Rodney Mullen

Skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms, and real respect is given by how much we take what other guys do, these basic tricks, 360 flips, we take that, we make it our own, and then we contribute back to the community the inner way that edifies the community itself.

American Athlete

Octavia Spencer

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

American Actress

Tom Shales

So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary - films about the hugely varied forms of life that eat, sleep, stalk, mate, fight, thrive, suffer and struggle on our dear and embattled old Earth.

American Writer

Steve Hanke

The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions of what is right, good and just should be examined from a concrete, operational point of view. A dose of reality is most edifying.

American Economist

Kenya Barris

Comedy used to be a vehicle for change. Now, comedy has gotten to this quirky, nonsensical place, which I enjoy. But I do think there is room for discussion-based humor. We can tell those stories in a way that feels edifying.

American Producer

John Dickerson

There's the human side of people who are in public life that connects people. Whether it's favorable or unfavorable, it gives them some connection with the person who's onstage, and I think those connections are edifying.

American Journalist

David Oyelowo

Not every film I do is going to be like 'Selma,' but every film I do can be edifying, can be something that points toward I believe to be true. I'm not one to shy away from darkness in movies as long as there is light.

English Actor

Katherine Boo

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

Carrie Brownstein

Writing 'Monitor Mix' was a very edifying and inspiring few years.

American Musician

Paul Horgan

It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.

American Author

Use 'edify' when referring to learning that enhances moral or ethical understanding.

Moral Improvement

'Edify' can also refer to broadening one's intellect, not just moral teaching.

Intellectual Growth

'Edify' implies a deeper understanding and growth than just learning facts.

Not Just Facts

In the context of building, 'edify' is archaic and rarely used today.

Archaic Construction

Though outdated for construction, 'edify' might be used for artistic effect in literature.

Literary Use

 disrupt our reality. So, we don't just laugh at truth, we laugh at the pleasurable, edifying revelation of flaws, incongruities, overlaps, and outright conflicts in the supposedly ordered system of truths we use to define the world and ourselves.

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 and then we contribute back to the community the inner way that edifies the community itself. The greater the contribution, the more we express and form our individuality, which is so important to a lot of us who feel like rejects to begin with.

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 edifying don't let that out if you want to hang on to the smart people academy and then there was a guy who pulled the audience and wanted to know how many of the men in relationships thought that their wife was much louder than they were in the