approach quotes

We had the experience but missed the meaning, And approach to the meaning restores the experience In a different form, beyond any meaning We can assign to happiness.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.2.

Upon those that step into the same rivers different and different waters flow. They scatter and gather, come together and flow away, approach and depart.

-Heraclitus   fl.500
c.500  BC  Quoted in Kirk, Raven and Schofield (eds)  The Presocratic Philosophers (1957), ch.6. Often quoted as 'It is not possible to step into the same river twice', from Plato, Cratylus 402a.

We had a two-track approach, one political and the other military, and the military was designed to move us along the political track.

- Robert Strange McNamara
On the Vietnam War in late1967. Quoted in Deborah Shapley Promise and Power (1993).