5 Quotes & Sayings By Rick Steves

Rick Steves is a well-known travel expert, television host and author. He is a three-time Emmy Award–winning host of a PBS series entitled Rick Steves' Europe. His television series has won twelve regional Emmy Awards, and he is the author of numerous books based on his travel experiences. He lives in northern California with his wife, author Ann Druyan, and their two children.

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Self-consciousness kills communication. Rick Steves
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I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It's not just Americans, it's the big countries. It's the biggest countries that tend to be ethnocentric or ugly. There are ugly Russians, ugly Germans, ugly Japanese and ugly Americans. You don't find ugly Belgians or ugly Bulgarians, they're just too small to think the world is their norm. Rick Steves
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As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity. Rick Steves
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Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking. Rick Steves