„The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing.“

„It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.“

—  Eric Roth American screenwriter 1945

Forrás: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

„Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.“

—  Dave Matthews American singer-songwriter, musician and actor 1967

Seek Up
Remember Two Things (1993)

„New methods change the experience, and new experiences change man. Whenever we hear sounds, we are changed, we are no longer the same, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds; music.“

—  Karlheinz Stockhausen German composer 1928 - 2007

http://www.ubu.com/film/stockhausen_tuning.html
Tuning In (1981) BBC documentary on Stockhausen.
Attributed

„But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.“

—  Michael Pollan, könyv The Omnivore's Dilemma

Forrás: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

„Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.“

—  Peter C. Newman Canadian journalist 1929

Forrás: Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power

„I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.“

—  Paulo Coelho, könyv The Zahir

Forrás: The Zahir (2005), p. 272.
Kontextus: That is how I would have acted before my accident, but now my personal history had become unimportant. It had stopped being history and was once more becoming a legend, a search, an adventure, a journey into and away from myself. I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

„Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.“

—  James D. Watson American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. 1928

„Me this unchartered freedom tires;
I feel the weight of chance-desires:
My hopes no more must change their name,
I long for a repose that ever is the same.“

—  William Wordsworth English Romantic poet 1770 - 1850

Stanza 5.
Ode to Duty http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww271.html (1805)

„Typically, "progressives" and change agents have demanded more money for social programs. But today it's clear that the way we do things needs to change – and that if things were done more appropriately, more humanely, more intelligently, we might end up spending less on social programs than we do now. Take education …. Over the last 10 years or so, a handful of education reformers have … come up with exciting new ideas for changing the ways our schools are administered, the ways our children are taught, and the kinds of things they're taught. And nearly all their ideas would cost no more than our current practices cost.“

—  Mark Satin American political theorist, author, and newsletter publisher 1946

Some would actually save us money!
Forrás: New Options for America (1991), Chapter 11, "Our Schools Need Imagination More Than They Need Money," pp. 84–85.

„The more you know, the more you try to change them, and that can be disastrous.“

—  Rick Riordan, könyv The Lost Hero

Forrás: The Lost Hero

„What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts“

—  Pat Conroy, South of Broad

Forrás: South of Broad

„I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.“

—  John Cage American avant-garde composer 1912 - 1992

1952, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812
1950s

„The more I ponder God's way, the more I believe He changes a person, or molds a person through enlightenment. He changes a person's mind.“

—  Donald Miller American writer 1971

Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)

„The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.“

—  Sue Grafton American writer 1940 - 2017

Forrás: J is for Judgment

„Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear.“

—  James Madison 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817) 1751 - 1836

Last words, to his niece, according to A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison (1865) by Paul Jennings, p. 20; his testimony on his death reads:
:: I was present when he died. That morning Sukey brought him his breakfast, as usual. He could not swallow. His niece, Mrs. Willis, said, "What is the matter, Uncle Jeames?" "Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear." His head instantly dropped, and he ceased breathing as quietly as the snuff of a candle goes out.
Variant:
I always talk better lying down.
Last words, according to a listing of "Last Words of Famous Americans" in A Conspectus of American Biography (1906) edited by George Derby, p. 276; no prior publication of such an attribution has been located; in recent years, without any sources cited, the two divergent accounts of his last words have sometimes been combined into the form: "Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear. I always talk better lying down."
1830s

„What has been is no more. Change has come.“

—  Dean Koontz, könyv Dead and Alive

Forrás: Dead and Alive

„Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.“

—  George Washington first President of the United States 1732 - 1799

Letter to George William Fairfax (25 June 1786), published in The Writings Of George Washington (1835) by Jared Sparks, p. 175
1780s
Kontextus: My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.

„Illusions are more common than changes in fortune“

—  Franz Kafka, könyv The Castle

Forrás: The Castle

„I hate change more than almost anything.“

—  Jenny Han, könyv To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Forrás: To All the Boys I've Loved Before